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Jane Mills talks to Faye Hatcher on BBC Radio Gloucestershire about the importance of soil and how it is often forgotten and undervalued as a global resource

Pete Gaskell and Julie Ingram are visiting one of the VALERIE project forestry case studies this week in the Roncal Valley in the Basque Pyrenees.

The CCRI has today published its 2016 Year in Review brochure, highlighting our research and other activities during the past year.

The latest project update for 'VALERIE’ (VALorising European Research for Innovation in agriculturE and forestry), which concerns research to underpin innovation in the agri-rural sector, is available to download.

5th December, is World Soil Day - the one day in the year that the United Nations asks us all to think about the role of soil in our daily lives. The CCRI has been collaborating on two major EU funded projects, SoilCare and RECARE, to investigate how soil quality can be improved.

The annual CCRI Winter School will be taking place on the 10th and 11th January 2017, at Oxstalls Campus of the University of Gloucestershire. Find out more about the event and how to apply if you would like to attend.

Over recent weeks, CCRI Director, Professor Janet Dwyer has been involved in a range of events related to 'Brexit' and the possible impacts upon UK agriculture. Read about all of these, and listen to an interview on BBC's Farming Today.

Julie Ingram will be in Kazakhstan from the 14th to 18th November, at a British Council Researcher Links Workshop on Management of Innovation in the Agricultural Sector. Julie is acting as mentor for the coordinators of the workshop which aims to increase research capacity of UK and Kazakhstani early career researchers and promote collaboration between them.

Dan Keech has had an article printed in a celebration issue of LEAF, a seasonal newspaper for trees, woods and people published by Common Ground. Dan's article is on community orchards and he explains why community orchards are healthier both for us and for local wildlife.