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Celebrating World Soil Day!

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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.

Evaluation of Innovative Farmers programme

Completed research projects, Research projects

Following a successful evaluation of the Soil Association’s Duchy Originals Future Farming programme in 2014, a CCRI team, comprising Matt Reed, Julie Ingram and Jane Mills, was invited in 2016 to evaluate Innovative Farmers, the successor programme, which was developed building in recommendations from our previous evaluation.

AgriDemo-F2F (Enhancing farmer to farmer learning)

Completed research projects, Research projects

This project is looked at best practice in farm demonstration and how farmers learn from their own on-farm experiences and from other farmers.

New paper published with free online access

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Julie Ingram and Jane Mills have co-authored a paper which has just been published in the Journal of Rural Studies. The paper is entitled 'Communicating soil carbon science to farmers: incorporating credibility, salience and legitimacy’ and has free online access until December 24, 2016.

Photos from the Tri-lateral Researcher Links Workshop in Stellenbosch

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More pictures have been published from the Tri-lateral Researcher Links Workshop in Stellenbosch, South Africa, which Julie Ingram and Kenny Lynch (School of Natural and Social Sciences, University of Gloucestershire) led from 29th September to 1st October.

CCRI at 12th European IFSA Symposium

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Julie Ingram, Jane Mills and James Kirwan are involved in co-convening workshops and presenting papers at the 12th European IFSA Symposium, which begins today (12th July) at Harper Adams University and runs until 15th July.

Engaging farmers in environment management through a better understanding of behaviour

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A paper produced by CCRI providing insights into farmers’ willingness and ability to undertake environmental management has just been published in the Journal of Agriculture and Human Values.

VALERIE workshop in Brussels

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A VALERIE project workshop took place in Brussels on 1st June, which was attended by Julie Ingram together with representatives of national & regional farmer unions, AKIS Working Groups, the EIP-AGRI Service Point & EIP Operational Groups.

Funding secured to lead international workshop on food security

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Julie Ingram and Kenny Lynch (School of Natural and Social Sciences, University of Gloucestershire) have secured funding from the UK’s Newton Fund to work with researchers from Egypt and South Africa on understanding water and food security issues. The support comes from a British Council Researcher Links award.

Terraces, agriculture and innovation

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Matt Reed has been walking the terraces of Cyprus where a team from The Cyprus Institute, as part of the RECARE project, are investigating the role of terraces in preserving the soil. In this blog, Matt talks about the traditions of cultivation of mountain terraces and the the challenge to produce and sell food in a way that develops livelihoods and sustains the environment. Matt was accompanied by Jane Mills.