CCRI is the largest specialist rural research centre in the UK, having expertise in all aspects of research in policy and planning for the countryside and the environment of the UK, Europe and further afield.
Julie Ingram who is to present a paper at the ‘Innovations in Technology and Management for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals’ conference that is taking place at JK Lakshmipat University, Jaipur, India.
As the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation uses World Soil Day to raise awareness about soil health, it may come as little surprise to find out that soil doesn’t just impact our food supplies, it also helps clean water and lower risks of floods and droughts. More surprising is the SoilCare team’s efforts to treat profitability for farmers as a central priority – a consideration many research projects on environmental health overlook.
A new knowledge and information platform for agriculture and forestry has just been launched to help practitioners and advisers access information
A paper written by Damian Maye has been published in City, Culture and Society.. The paper is entitled ‘Smart food city’: conceptual relations between smart city planning, urban food systems and innovation theory’.
The Valerie project have published stakeholder field trial information leaflets. These describe the identification of problems within a number of specific contexts and the trial of experimental solutions by stakeholder project partners, and are the result of the preceding four years’ work on the project.
A CCRI team of researchers have been leading a work package for the EU funded project VALERIE -Valorising European Research for Innovation in Agriculture and Forestry, which has developed a smart ‘virtual adviser’ tool (ask-Valerie.eu)
A paper, co-written by Julie Ingram, Peter Gaskell, Jane Mills and Pieter de Wolf (University of Wageningen), has been published in Land Use Policy. It describes how the VALERIE team has worked with stakeholder communities in ten farming and forestry case studies across Europe.
The latest VALERIE newsletter is now available for download, summarising the activities in some of the project case studies, as well as an update on the ask-Valerie tool.
CCRI researchers Julie Ingram, Jane Mills and Peter Gaskell attended the final Symposium for the EU funded VALERIE project in Brussels on 14th November 2017.
The VALERIE project partners have been meeting in Toulouse (23rd-27th January) to review progress and plan for the last year of the project