Reflecting on events this week I was reminded on a paper I wrote on the birth of TB policy in Wales following devolution. This quote stands out as somewhat relevant.

Excellent to see Strutt & Parker Rural feature our CCRI climathon which sought to answer the question: what might a climate resilient farm of the future look like?’
rural.struttandparker.com/article/climat…
Damian Maye Aimee Morse The Royal Agricultural Society of England

🌱 New #EnvironmentalGeography paper published in the Annals of American Association of Geographers 🌱

'On Disease Configurations, Black-Grass Blowback, and #Probiotic #Pest #Management ' by George Cusworth & Jamie Lorimer

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Jamie Lorimer SoGE, University of Oxford Oxford Martin School LEAP

Mary Robinson's advice to new Taoiseach Simon Harris on tackling climate change: go faster
DCU Centre for Climate & Society #DCUClimate2024
Fossil fuel lobbyists spending $4bn a year to undermine climate justice movement, Mary Robinson warns independent.ie/irish-news/fos…

Project: Designing serious games to inform land use decisions for net zero in Wales.
Pathway: Environmental Planning
Institution: University of Gloucestershire CCRI
Partners: Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru | Natural Resources Wales Welsh Government
Supervisor: Prof Damian Maye Damian Maye
Info: tinyurl.com/38d8m5pr
5/13

Wheat production is down 15% since November, the biggest reduction in cropped areas since 2020. Oilseed rape is down 28%, the biggest reduction since the 1980s, and winter barley is down 22% at 355,000 hectares, the biggest reduction since 2020.
theguardian.com/environment/20…

Essential ‘rural’ reading Rural Geography Research Group (RGRG) RGS-IBG RGRG_RGS

“You can’t manage what you can’t measure”: Regenerative agriculture, farming by numbers, and calculability in soil microbiopolitics', my paper is just out in EPE: Nature and Space in opeb access. A 🧵on the main points and potential audiences follows
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/25…

What happens when you bring together people who want to improve farmer health and safety? High quality knowledge exchange and development of interesting proposals that work with existing systems to overcome the limitations of currently available fatality and non-fatal injury data

‘Carbon colonialism’ in Africa meets resistance as companies seek to sell carbon credits from conservation projects that often upend local livelihoods—or worse fortune.com/2024/04/07/env…

Reading Will Burns not too many writers get Southern England and rurality spot on, but these do

📢Crucible deadline tomorrow

If you want to apply for £50k for a project to help agri-food net zero transition but need to find collaborators or want help developing an idea, join our Crucible workshop.

Apply:👉bit.ly/Crucible24

More on funding: 👉bit.ly/AFNfunding

This episode of the CCRI podcast offers a great insight into #PhD Life !

Interested in doing a #PhD at the CCRI? We have 2 funded studentships available:

🌳Farmer groups and tree planting: jobs.glos.ac.uk/wrl/pages/vaca…

🎲Serious games for land use net zero: jobs.glos.ac.uk/wrl/pages/vaca…

There's still time to register your interest for our upcoming 'New Directions' workshop, which will be held on 21-22 May at Coventry University. Find out more and register your interest here:
foodgeographies.wordpress.com/new-directions…

🚨Funding pot alert!

AFN Network+ has £600k to award in research grants for studies looking to advance #netzero in the UK agri-food system. Interdisciplinary teams required - ie not just academia but those working in the food system, e.g. farmers.

Deets👉agrifood4netzero.net/scoping-studie…

Pleased to see that our Planetary rural geographies authors' response is now available in an open-access format on Dialogues in Human Geography. Grateful to all commentators for their valuable insights and critiques. Michael Woods Damian Maye.

A paper by Chi-Mao Wang & co-authored by Damian Maye & Michael Woods is now available online and is #OpenAccess !

journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…

'Planetary rural geographies: Towards a research agenda'

#Rural #Geographies #Urban #Research

The PAGE group is thrilled to proudly announce that Prof. Gianluca Brunori (gianluca brunori) has been awarded with the honorary title 'Ordine del Cherubino.' All PAGE group extend their heartfelt congratulations to him for this prestigious recognition.

Check👇
shorturl.at/lAILP

📢🚨Two PhD Opportunities🚨📢

We have two @wgsssdtp collaborative #PhD vacancies available! 🧑‍🎓🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

1⃣ 'Serious games for Land Use Net Zero'🌍
2⃣ 'Farmer groups & tree planting'🌳

See 🧵below ⤵️ for details of each!
#Research #Postgraduate #Study #Academia

1⃣ 'Serious games for Land Use Net Zero' 🕹️🌍

Designing serious games to inform #landuse decisions for #netzero in #Wales -in collaboration with Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru | Natural Resources Wales & Welsh Government

Full details: jobs.glos.ac.uk/wrl/pages/vaca…

#PhD #Research #Academia #Postgraduate