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IFA calls for Leaving Cert course to recognise agriculture’s ‘environmental credentials’

Organisation says famers are being ‘vilified’ as the sole cause of climate change while minister says it’s time to move away from 'adversarial’ positions on the issue

Climate & Environment

Action stations: Turning Ireland’s climate ambitions into reality

Our national targets for reducing emissions, set out in the new Climate Action Plan, are now among the most ambitious in the world – and each sector has specific carbon budgets and pathways to deliver on by 2025 – but how achievable are they?

Climate & Environment

John Gibbons: We’ve got to change our choice of food to feed our growing population

Half of all the habitable land on Earth is now used to feed our vast livestock herds, and for crop production for direct human consumption, with profound impacts on the biosphere

Second London hedge fund takes short bet against Kerry Group

Greenvale Capital joins Marshall Wace in betting that the food giant’s shares will continue to fall

Irishman leads the way in New Zealand’s drive to produce methane livestock vaccine

John Roche from Co Kerry is advising the government in Wellington on technologies including a possible methane vaccine for cattle and sheep

Climate & Environment

Pace of government climate policy ‘out of step with worsening conditions’

Friends of the Earth said that while the government’s performance in the areas of nature and transport had improved from last year, there was a decline in performance in energy, climate, water, and buildings

Barley buyer to deduct ‘energy surcharge’ from price paid for grain

French-owned Boortmalt, the main buyer of the malting crop produced here for the Irish drinks industry, announces the cut as farm inputs rise by 40 per cent

Cairns calls for CAP subsidies to be shifted from farmers to consumers

The Social Democrats TD says the current system encourages below-cost selling and benefits supermarkets rather than farmers

Threat of global food crisis recedes as grain ships leave Ukrainian ports

The vessels are the first to depart the ports on the Black Sea in months, following Russia’s deal with Ukraine last month to allow safe passage to grain shipments

Brian Keegan: Concerns of farmers serve as a magnifying glass on politics

The resolution of the agriculture emissions problem requires it to be seen for what it is: a problem of oversupply of a by-product

Climate & Environment

Farmers to be asked to reduce emissions by 25%

Negotiations over sectoral emissions ceilings had reached an impasse in recent weeks over agriculture’s proposed range of 22-30% emissions reductions by 2030 from 2018 levels

Climate & Environment

Farmers to get lower carbon target with review in 2025

The compromise target is likely to be agreed after backbench rural TDs threatened to resign their party whips, but it could be raised if methane-inhibiting technologies prove viable

Climate & Environment

Ireland’s carbon emissions increased almost 5% last year, new EPA figures show

A surge in the use of coal and oil for electricity generation, coupled with a continued increase in agricultural emissions contributed to the country’s overall carbon emissions levels increase above 61.5 million tons of C02 equivalent

Climate & Environment

Mind the gap: Why the next climate plan has to double down on actions

As various carbon-emitting sectors wrangle over what their final emissions reduction should be, of greater concern is the fact that even our most ambitious strategies won’t see us achieve our overall target by 2030

Against the grain: How Russia’s war in Ukraine is threatening the world’s food supply

Already a humanitarian disaster on the ground, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is now looking increasingly likely to trigger a global food shortage over the coming months, with supply chains broken and potential shipping routes for grain cut off. With no end to the conflict in sight, the implications for numerous countries are potentially devastating

‘Unprecedented opportunities’ for Irish firms to thrive in Nigeria, ambassador says

African nation keen to address ‘lopsided’ trading relationship, where Irish exports to Nigeria in 2020 were worth $342m while imports totalled just $12m

Acres scheme could buy space for government ahead of harder sell announcement to farmers

Farming TDs lined up to extol the new €1.5bn agri-environment programme which will deliver grants of up to €10,000 per year — but more costly measures for the sector will be introduced in the coming weeks

Partner of man killed at meat plant takes legal action

Kildare Chilling Company is being sued as as the results of a HSA investigation into the death of Binak Cokaj are awaited

Milk production to decline by 1% in 2022

Irish dairy farmers, grappling with increases in the cost of energy, fertiliser and animal feed, are reducing their cattle numbers

Old Irish Goats given special status

Breed with origins going back an estimated 5,000 years currently has no legal protections