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:
Environment, climate groups recommend herd reductions
Updated / Tuesday, 27 Apr 2021
14:05
A coalition of environment and climate groups has issued recommendations for the agricultural sector that include requiring some dairy farmers to reduce their herd numbers and incentivising beef farmers to do the same.
The coalition also recommends phasing out all environmentally harmful subsidies and stopping the drainage of wetlands and peaty soils.
It also calls on the Government to scrap Bord Bia s Origin Green marketing strategy. Towards a New Agricultural and Food Policy for Ireland , which includes input from more than 70 organisations, has been jointly published by the Environmental Pillar, Stop Climate Chaos and the Sustainable Water Network (SWAN).
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Ireland’s strategy to be a world leader in sustainable food by 2030
High-level targets include the food system being climate-neutral by 2050
Expanded tillage, horticulture, organic, and agro-forestry production is one of the targets in the draft Agri-Food Strategy to 2030. File Picture.
Thu, 22 Apr, 2021 - 12:00
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Ireland’s plan to be a world leader in sustainable food systems by 2030 has been thrown open to public consultation.
Submissions or observations on the draft Agri-Food Strategy to 2030 and associated Environmental Report and Natura Impact Statement are invited, until June 15, 2021.
The strategy aims for agri-food being profitable throughout (economic sustainability), with broad-based benefits for society (social sustainability), with a positive or neutral impact on the natural environment (environmental sustainability).
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