Agricultural policy recommendations
This comes only days after the Department of Agriculture published its industry-led draft Agri-Food Strategy to 2030.
Environmental NGOs “reluctantly withdrew” from the department’s strategy stakeholder committee in February, as they claim “it became clear our concerns were being ignored”.
This new report makes recommendations “that will drive down agriculture emissions”, while “simultaneously restoring our depleted biodiversity and water bodies”.
“These measures can also play a role in revitalising rural and farming communities, who time and time again have been let down by misaligned agricultural policies and roadmaps.”
A number of the recommendations from the report include: