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.
The final SoilCare conference will take place on Thursday 24th June from 10:30-15:00 CET with the aim of disseminating the findings of our EU-funded project and inciting discussion surrounding our results and policy recommendations.
The CCRI is to participate in a greenhouse gas removal research project under a major grant from UKRI
As SURE-Farm is coming to an end, the CCRI released a booklet summarizing the key results and messages from the work conducted since 2017. The booklet reports impacts and recommendations for the social, economic and environmental context of the East of England arable farming system.
Next week a Climate Exp0 is taking place as a warm-up to the UN’s COP26 Climate Change Conference. CCRI’s Julie Urquhart will be chairing a session related to the Future of UK Treescape’s project.
Rural and farming businesses in the South West are being asked how they are dealing with COVID-19 to explore the lesser-known area of rural resilience. The survey being conducted by the National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (NICRE).
A new study of LEADER, commissioned by DG AGRI, is currently underway, led by a partnership of the CCRI in the UK, ÖIR (Austria) and ADE (Belgium). An online survey is available to collect experiences of those involved in LEADER.
The Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) has launched a ‘Rural Wales Manifesto’ as part of a vision for a renewed rural economy. CCRI’s Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins was part of the research team that helped inform the vision.
Three researchers from CCRI will be presenting at an online seminar on 26th January at the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data.
The latest edition of the journal ‘Eurochoices’ is a Special Issue that focusses on the EU Horizon 2020 project ‘SURE-Farm’ (Towards SUstainable and REsilient EU FARMing systems).
The SPRINT project is an EU-funded Horizon 2020 project which started at the beginning of September.