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.
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.
In April 2020, CCRI’s Professor of Agri-Food Studies, Damian Maye began collating articles related to COVID-19 and Food Systems. This has now developed into an interactive database with over 1000 articles.
A new article written by Damian Maye and Julie Urquhart has just been published in the Journal of Rural Studies that seeks to examine the online discourses regarding sustainable meat consumption by analysing a range of ‘hashtags’.
Next month, Professor Damian Maye will be presenting at a Royal Geographic Society event that will be discussing the economic and social impacts related to COVID-19.
Further to our previous news item regarding a call for papers at the forthcoming RGS-IBG conference, we are delighted to announce that Professor Damian Maye will also be convening a sessions and is now inviting abstracts to be submitted for consideration.
Over the last two years, Professor Damian Maye has been working with fellow academics Moya Kneafsey, Lewis Holloway and Michael K. Goodman on an exciting new book about the future of food.
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 ‘Emerging Topics in Life Sciences’ is a Special Issue focussed on ‘Biosecurity: Tools, behaviours and concepts’ and features an article written by Damian Maye.
A recent article by Julie Ingram and Damian Maye on digitalisation and agricultural knowledge has now been included in a new ebook.
The summer period has been a successful time for CCRI researchers with five papers having been published or accepted for publication.