The Department of Agriculture secretary general Aidan O'Driscoll; Yield Lab Ireland managing partner Paul Finnerty; Department of Agriculture assistant secretary general Sinéad McPhillips; Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed; FoodDrink Europe director Mella Frewen; Enterprise Ireland Divisional Manager for Food Orla Battersby; UCD professor emeritus of entrepreneurship Frank Roche; and Department of Agriculture chief economist Sean Bell at meeting of the Food Wise 2025 implementation committ
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The Department of Agriculture will open talks with industry on a strategy to take over from the Food Wise 2025 in the coming months.
“There will be a new Food Wise,” Edwina Love, head of the Department’s climate change and bioenergy division, told the Irish Bioenergy Association (IrBEA) conference on Wednesday.
“The negotiations for a new agri-food strategy will commence later this year, and again sustainability and the environment will be central.”
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The Department will also define the Government’s objective of an “approach to carbon neutrality in the agriculture and land-use sector, including forestry, which does not compromise capacity for sustainable food production”.
“There is a research project ongoing, projecting what carbon neutrality looks like in agriculture,” Love said.
IrBEA chief executive Sean Finan told the Irish Farmers Journal that the bioenergy sector would be interested in taking part in the drafting of a new national agri-food strategy for the first time.
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The Department of Agriculture will open talks with industry on a strategy to take over from the Food Wise 2025 in the coming months.
“There will be a new Food Wise,” Edwina Love, head of the Department’s climate change and bioenergy division, told the Irish Bioenergy Association (IrBEA) conference on Wednesday.
“The negotiations for a new agri-food strategy will commence later this year, and again sustainability and the environment will be central.”
The Department will also define the Government’s objective of an “approach to carbon neutrality in the agriculture and land-use sector, including forestry, which does not compromise capacity for sustainable food production”.
“There is a research project ongoing, projecting what carbon neutrality looks like in agriculture,” Love said.
IrBEA chief executive Sean Finan told the Irish Farmers Journal that the bioenergy sector would be interested in taking part in the drafting of a new national agri-food strategy for the first time.
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