Joy Gadsby was the secretary of Christian Rural Concern for many years and when CRuC joined in partnership with JRI to prepare a Christian Rural and Environmental Studies (CRES) certificate and diploma Joy was one of those instrumental in bringing that into being. Joy’s “rather wonderful young man” was killed …
JRI is pleased to announce the publication of Briefing Paper no 35, “What is the Role and Importance of Soil Biology and the Soil Food Web in Sustainable Agriculture?” by Martin Parsons. This Briefing Paper focuses on the impact of modern farming methods on soil biology, and in particular the …
JRI are pleased to announce the publication of Briefing Paper number 34. On the first anniversary of the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States of America, JRI Operations Director Dr Martin Hodson has produced the promised follow-up to ‘Donald Trump, the Environment and the …
The JRI website underwent some major ‘behind-the-scenes’ changes during the period 15th to 18th November. We are sorry if you visited during that time and found that something was missing. Thank you to our new hosts Kualo, a UK based hosting company run on 100% renewable energy. We still have …
Since 2007, Christian Rural and Environmental Studies (CRES) has been running an annual residential at Ripon College Cuddesdon (nr. Oxford) in September. This year it was on Friday and Saturday 1st/2nd September. Typically we have a field trip on Friday afternoon, a guest speaker on Friday evening, and our final …
JRI is pleased to announce the publication of Briefing Paper number 33, written by recent CRES graduate Rob Hitchcock. “What makes a successful environmental campaign?” looks at examples of both successful and unsuccessful campaigns from the last three decades to identify the similarities where aims have been achieved and the …
