The Prince’s Countryside Fund: Livestock Auction Marts Research Project
The Prince's Countryside Fund and the John Oldacre Foundation Endowment
Environmental Effectiveness of the HLS Stewardship Scheme, resurvey SL-07102
Natural England via NERC CEH
South West Agricultural Resource Management (SWARM)
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)/SWRDA
Validation of Fertiliser Manual (RB209) recommendations for grassland
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
Profile

Professor Michael Winter
OBE
Professor of Land Economy and Society
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01392 723837
Lazenby House G.02
Michael is a rural policy specialist and social scientist with particular interests in applying inter-disciplinary approaches to policy-relevant research and in direct engagement in the policy process. His current research focuses on the governance of sustainable agro-food systems and food security; the historical and contemporary sociology of west country agriculture; & farmer environmental attitudes and decision-making, particularly in the context of diffuse pollution and water quality.
He chairs the Devon Nature Partnership and is a board member of Natural England, the UK Joint Nature Conservation Committee and Rothamsted Research.
Previous appointments include: Chair of North Devon UNESCO Biosphere Partnership, Visiting Programme Director in Food Security at Wilton Park (Foreign Office), member of Defra’s Panel of Agricultural & Environmental Economists, the National Ecosystem Assessment Expert Panel, & DEFRA’s Science Advisory Council, and a Commissioner for the Commission for Rural Communities from its inception in 2006 until its abolition in 2013. In 2000, he was a member of the Committee of Inquiry into Hunting with Dogs in England and Wales chaired by Lord Burns. In 2008-09 he vice-chaired an inquiry into the future for the uplands reporting to the Prime Minister.
Research group links
Research interests
Agricultural policy analysis and governance.
Sustainable agro-food systems and food security.
Sociology, politcal economy and history of agriculture.
Farmer environmental attitudes and decision-making, particularly in context of diffuse pollution and water quality.
Agricultural tenure and property rights in the UK.
Nature conservation, land management and ecosystem services.
Research supervision
Avaibale to supervise PhD students
For more details visit the Centre for Rural Policy Research Web pages.