February 24th 2017 Agrichemical giants, Bayer and Syngenta, are back in the European courts attempting to have the European Commission’s neonicotinoid ban overturned. Following on from two separate reviews by the European Food and Safety Authority (ESFA) in 2013, the European Commission imposed a ban on three neonicotinoids; clothianidin, imidacloprid Read more…
[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text] 15th February 2017 [/cs_text][cs_text class=”cs-ta-justify”]In a move aimed at protecting Irish rivers, lakes and estuaries, the European Commission is considering removing special allowances on fertiliser use given to farmers, known as Read more…
[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text class=”cs-ta-right”]9th February 2017[/cs_text][cs_text class=”cs-ta-justify”]Phosphorus depletion is one of the most important dilemmas facing the world. Our modern agriculture system has led us down a deeply unsustainable path, which we must diverge from. Phosphorus Read more…
[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text class=”cs-ta-right”]2nd February 2017[/cs_text][cs_text class=”cs-ta-justify”] By now you are surely aware of the threat of climate change, rising sea levels, mass extinction and the destruction of tropical rainforests, but you probably haven’t Read more…
January 23, 2017 Soil is the secret of life on land, it’s history began hundreds of millions of years ago and because of the scale of its timeline it’s not renewable. Without soil there is no agriculture and without agriculture we would lose 95% of our food production. Soil is Read more…
[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” class=”cs-ta-justify” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text class=”cs-ta-right”]January 11th, 2017 [/cs_text][/cs_column][/cs_row][/cs_section][cs_section parallax=”false” class=”cs-ta-justify” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text class=”cs-ta-justify”]The idea of permaculture was conceptualized in Read more…
October 19th, 2016 You may have heard of a hackathon but next week some bright sparks in Dublin and Cork will taken part in the world’s first Climathon. Two Irish events are being held as part of an international effort to get people together to problems solves the various issues Read more…
[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text] October 6th 2016 As global populations continue to grow, the direction our society takes has enormous consequences for our future. Given the targets we have set in Ireland under Food Harvest Read more…
The former President Mary Robinson has called to “eat less meat, or no meat at all, become vegetarian or vegan” during negotiations ahead the Paris Agreement on climate change.
July 15th 2016 Ireland’s agriculture and food system needs to substantially change if we are to meet the challenge of climate change, a report into Climate Smart Agriculture has found. Significantly the report has also acknowledged that by changing the food we eat we can significantly reduce carbon emissions. This Read more…
