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Chris Short has been invited to attend a facilitated workshop to discuss arising opportunities for renewable technological development.

Cities cover just 2% of the planet’s surface but consume 75% of its resources.  Any movement towards sustainability will need to focus on the resource-use challenges linked to production and manufacturing, a major part of which will be the role of…

Dr Damian Maye presented a paper at the Smart city food governance workshop yesterday (28 September) at Milan EXPO in Italy. Damian’s paper provided a critique of ‘smart food governance’ from a techno-scientific perspective and will argue for the need to…

Dr Julie Ingram and Jane Mills are attending a SmartSOIL one-day conference, which takes place this Wednesday, 30 September, in Brussels.

Damian Maye is making an opening presentation at the FOODMETRES final conference ‘Towards a Territorial Approach for European Food Security’

CCRI Director, Professor Janet Dwyer, is currently attending various meetings, conferences and workshops, both in the UK and in Europe.

The CCRI has been working with Stroud District Council to tackle floods and help wildlife on the streams of the Stroud valleys. Instead of spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on concrete and steel structures, it has been using trees…

CCRI researchers were involved at the recent XXVI European Society for Rural Sociology Congress in Aberdeen (18-21 August 2015).

Drs Damian Maye and James Kirwan are taking part in a workshop at the Milan EXPO event, “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life”. This is the major annual world event on food & agriculture.