Opinion
Inflation has become a major issue as Ireland and, indeed, the whole world emerges from the Covid-19 recession. Ironically and,...
I have written previously about the disconnect between the ever increasing regulatory costs that the EU Green Deal will impose...
The greatest challenge for the Irish agri sector is the representation and communication of its unique economic and social impact in the...
Inflation is every where, but not in food or agriculture because the sector does not have selling power. There is...
I mentioned in previous articles that there is an emerging realisation post COP26, across global media at least, of both...
COP26 showed that climate action is a complex global challenge. However, while there is much greater awareness among citizens, the commitment...
The huge challenge of decarbonising the global economy has been well articulated and defined by the Glasgow COP26 process. COP26 has...
Is Ireland’s livestock-based agriculture still under threat for its very existence, or do the proposed sectoral carbon budgets represent the...
‘It ain’t what folks don’t know that is the problem, it’s what they do know that just ain’t so’. This...
Since 2016 with the UK Brexit vote, Irish agriculture and the Irish economy, have faced a huge challenge of ‘economic...
Many of the more enlightened analyses of where agriculture and climate action challenges interweave, highlight the need for proper coordination...
Irish agriculture and its food industry has been under constant attack over the last 30 months or so; much of...
In most countries across the world, the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) report was seen as the ultimate ‘wake...
Irish agriculture can cope with the evolving reality of sustainability and environmental challenges by investing in better practice and complying...
As I have said previously, the EU Green Deal, while clearly admirable in concept, contains a continuing disconnect in EU...
This month saw the publication of a couple of reports that go to the heart of the requirement for balance,...
Ireland’s stellar export performance in terms of agri-food exports, is a key true strength of the agri-food economy. Ireland exports...
There is a well-known management consultancy maxim that suggests that a policy based only on using a hammer, sees every...
