The CCRI is currently working on the following projects funded by the EU research programmes, UK Government and others:

SURE-Farm (Towards SUstainable and REsilient EU FARMing systems)
The CCRI is one partner of a 16 pan-European consortium (from 13 countries), led by Wageningen University, with a strong transdisciplinary approach....
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SoilCare (SoilCare for profitable and sustainable crop production in Europe)
CCRI is one of 28 collaborating partners on this 5-year project, led by Alterra, University of Wageningen, Netherlands. The project started on 1st March 2016....
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ROBUST (Rural-Urban Outlooks: Unlocking Synergies)
The CCRI is working with 23 partner organisations across Europe in this 4-year Horizon 2020 project, which started in June 2017....
Read moreGoing the Extra Mile (GEM)
A five-year evaluation of the Going the Extra Mile (GEM) project begun in 2016, which further develops and applies social value research techniques, as demonstrated in projects such as the Hulme Community Garden Centre Project. Funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) and National Lottery Community Fund, GEM aims to move the county’s most vulnerable adults closer to employment, training and education....
Read moreEconomic analysis and project evaluation of the ‘Molland Graze the Moor’
Janet Dwyer is currently working with CCRI Associate, Allan Butler, from the Royal Agricultural University, to provide an economic analysis and project evaluation of the ‘Molland Graze the Moor' project in Exmoor. ...
Read moreCompletion of Farmsteads and Landscapes Statements for England’s National Character Areas
Peter Gaskell is undertaking this work for Historic England, which aims to complete and publish a baseline statement for England’s National Character Areas...
Read moreAn adaptive decision-support tool for better grassland management by UK farmers
The CCRI is part of a partnership for a two year research translation project funded by the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Innovation Club (SARIC). The project runs from 2018 to 2020....
Read moreGIS of the Lower Severn Vale
This project, led by Robert Berry, is aimed at developing a digital map database, or geographic information system (GIS), of the Lower Severn Vale using undergraduate student interns working with open source GIS software....
Read moreEvaluation of Innovative Farmers programme
Following a successful evaluation of the Soil Association’s Duchy Originals Future Farming programme in 2014, the CCRI was invited in 2016 to evaluate its successor programme, Innovative Farmers...
Read moreHeritage, natural capital and ecosystem services: Lower Severn Vale
This project will use a range of existing and ongoing work including data on boundaries in the Lower Severn Vale to develop GIS resources in the Lower Severn Vale using open data and open source GIS software. ...
Read moreRSN Rural Survey on Rural Housing
This Rural Housing Survey sought the opinions and experiences of residents of rural areas in England to help Rural England better understand housing issues ...
Read moreForesters’ Forest – Monitoring and Evaluation
In the autumn of 2014, the CCRI was successful in a bid to undertake a long-term evaluation of the Forest of Dean Landscape Partnership, known as the 'Foresters' Forest'....
Read moreHeritage, natural capital and ecosystem services: Historic buildings and boundaries
This collaborative project will demonstrate how buildings and boundaries enclosing spaces associated with their historic use can be better integrated into decision making processes based on an ecosystem services approach....
Read moreDeveloping an ecosystems approach: Dry stone walls
The project will develop a methodology that can identify the benefits and attribute values associated with the dry stone walls of the Peak District National Park...
Read moreNational Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (NICRE)
The National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (NICRE) aims to realise a step change in innovation and unlock potential in the UK’s rural economies. ...
Read moreSPRINT (Sustainable Plant Protection Transition: A Global Health Approach)
The CCRI is a member of this 28 partner Horizon 2020 funded project which runs for 5-years from September 2020....
Read moreDeveloping social indicators for the monitoring and evaluation of Agri-environment Schemes
In 2019 a team at CCRI was commissioned by Natural England to work with them to develop a set of social indicators that can be used to monitor and evaluate agri-environment schemes. That work has now developed a set of twenty indicators, set within five themes....
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