CCRI Rural Policy Conference

15 Jul 2010

The CCRI has announced its 2010 Policy Conference. It takes place on Tuesday 19 October 2010 at the Queens Hotel, Cheltenham.

Conflict or Consensus? The Next Decade of Rural Policy offers an exciting new format in the form of four on-line seminars, which will set the scene for the conference discussions by providing background information and a briefing on the latest research.

The next decade promises to bring many challenges and innovations in rural policy making as societal debates about the future use of land, climate change, demographic trends and the threat of resource ‘peaks’ come together. With the recent election in the UK and the emergence at a national level of a form of consensus politics and with the backdrop of financial retrenchment at all levels of government from the EU down, this conference looks forward to the likely consequences of these flows for the future of rural policy.

Given the diversity of influences and factors in these discussions the day will be broken down into four themes:

• Land and its uses;
• Future of food;
• Communities in transition; and
• Science, technology and rural life.