Food Vision 2030 currently operates on a logic of "efficiency within an extractive system." It treats the climate, biodiversity, and water crises as technical externalities to be managed rather than symptoms of a fundamental systemic failure.
Read MoreTalamh Beo believes Ireland’s rural future must be grounded in land, livelihood, community, democracy, and ecological renewal. The foundation of a thriving rural Ireland is in diverse ecological food and land use systems, supported by comprehensive social and community infrastructure.
Read MoreTalamh Beo welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the development of the Animal Welfare Strategy 2026–2030. In preparing this submission, we have considered the five themes of the 2021–2025 Strategy, as well as the Department’s overarching Statement of Strategy 2023–2026 — in particular Strategic Objective 1.3 and the Appendix’s alignment…
Read MoreTalamh Beo proposes the following overarching framing and three Presidency themes: Overarching phrase / slogan “A Living Europe: Fair Livelihoods, Living Land, Shared Future.”Theme 1 – Fair Livelihoods for Farmers and Rural Communities Theme 2 – A Just Green Transition through Agroecology Theme 3 – Food Sovereignty, Democracy and Local…
Read MoreTalamh Beo welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine's (DAFM) consultation on its Statement of Strategy 2025–2027. As a grassroots farmers' organisation committed to agroecology and food sovereignty, we are deeply concerned about the future viability of Irish farming. With an ageing farming…
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