Rural Life
40% increase in Irish funding for UN World Food Programme
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue has today (Thursday, March 14) announced Irish funding of €105 million...
Rural Life
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue has today (Thursday, March 14) announced Irish funding of €105 million...
Agri-Business
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue is today (Wednesday, March 13) beginning a six-day international development mission...
Agri-Business
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue will travel to three countries in east Africa as part of...
Rural Life
The chair of the Irish Hospice Foundation and a Longford farmer are working to assist nuns in Central Africa who...
Agri-Business
Bord Bia has officially launched its “Spirit of Ireland” drinks campaign in west Africa as part of the Irish government’s...
Agri-Business
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue will travel to two countries in Africa this week as part...
Rural Life
A 21-year-old student from Cork city who had never been on a farm in this country but who took to...
Agri-Business
Irish agri-food companies of all sizes have been encouraged to apply for grant funding to explore and seize opportunities to...
Agri Politics
The world “must face up to some difficult questions” around how it feeds the planet, President Michael D. Higgins has...
Machinery
The United Nations has recently published a report entitled The State of Food and Agriculture 2022 in which it looks...
Beef News
When the Uys family from Shanahoe, Co. Laois visited their friend Danie Kotze’s farm in the Kalahari desert in Namibia...
Agri-Business
Animal health distributor Bimeda has acquired veterinary pharmaceutical company Afrivet, meaning the company now has the largest footprint of any...
Agri-Business
The first shipment of grain to Africa from Ukraine since the Russian invasion began has embarked on its journey. The...
Rural Life
Agriculture has the potential to help Africa overcome its raging hunger crisis, if long-term investments are made in the continent...
Agri-Business
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has launched a new phase of its agricultural policy initiative...
Agri-Business
Grants of up to €250,000 are being offered to Irish agri-food companies to develop new markets in Africa. The Africa...
Rural Life
Irish agri-food companies are being sought to develop commercial projects in Africa to benefit communities there. Minister for Agriculture Charlie...
Environment
Huge swarms of locusts – capable of devouring entire fields worth of crops in just 30 seconds – are sparking...