source: The Irish Times OPINION: OUR INTENSE FOCUS ON BEEF AND DAIRY HAS GIVEN US ADVANTAGE IN GLOBAL MARKETS, BUT WAR IN UKRAINE HAS EXPOSED OUR VULNERABILITY IN FRUIT, VEGETABLE AND CEREAL PRODUCT…
More than a billion people around the world will be obese by 2030 – double the number there was in 2010, according to new global estimates . No country is on track to meet the World Health Organizati…
Source: Irish Times Ireland’s proposed 2030 agri-food strategy is out of line with the Government’s economy-wide emissions reduction targets for the next decade, according to a report by 70 enviro…
Whether you watched Seaspiracy in horror or avoided it because you feared it would guilt you into giving up sushi, there’s no doubt that the Netflix documentary about the environmental impact of…
What happens next on Climate Bill in build-up to Ireland’s first carbon budget? Government has approved the appointment of three new members to the Climate Chan…
Eire, the country of the Celts, the country without soccer, the country where life is beautiful. My first visit here was in October 2015, in Limerick, Job interview, got the job on the day! Since the…
Greece got Bronze! Yes! Did you know that... the Irish shopping basket contained 45.9 per cent ultra processed foods, making Ireland the third highest consumer after Britain (50.7 per cent) and Ger…
[my Dec 2017 article in the International Aquafeed] by Ioannis Zabetakis From November 12-19, 2017, we celebrated what we call “Science Week” in Ireland, when hundreds of different workshops, tuto…
Over the past 3 decades the prevalence of overweight and obesity has increased markedly in Ireland and worldwide. In the Republic of Ireland it is currently estimated that 60% of adults and 25% of …
5.17 EU: Persons with heavy episodic drinking 1 at least once a week, 2014 Irish people aged 18 to 24 had the highest rates of binge drinking in the European Union , according to the Central Stati…
the news are rather worrying... Tenfold increase in childhood and adolescent obesity in four decades: new study by Imperial College London and WHO World will have more obese children and adolescents …
The Irish Wine Association (IWA) has released its annual report, offering a view on the state of the industry in the country for 2017. The figures show continued sales growth and indicate the prefe…
Ireland is set to become the first country in the world to restrict unhealthy food sponsorships aimed at children attending primary school, once a newly developed code of practice is introduced. T…
