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The Rural Resilience Research Group (3RG) is a well-established interdisciplinary social science cluster focussed on understanding, developing and promoting resilience in the rural economy.

‘3RG’ has been formed as a response to the lack of recognition in policy and practice of rural issues in a rapidly changing world. The group brings together rural geographers, criminologists, economists and animal health specialists together.  The group currently focusses on the food security implications of climate change and conflict, the resilience of agricultural and food chains to emerging risks such as deliberate attack, behavioural science and farmer decision-making, and rural and agricultural crime. ‘3RG’ makes regular contributions to Parliamentary calls for evidence, policy groups, conferences, academic journals and media. We also engage in academic research, consultancy and institutionally funded pump priming projects.  

The research group brings together specialists from criminology, social and geographical science and agri-land management to complement natural science understanding and provide innovative insights to the challenges facing global food production. As such ‘3RG’ brings a unique perspective to critically evaluating risk and resilience in food chains at a global level.