Category Archives: Policy

2020 Submission

The Department of Agriculture Food and Fisheries called for stakeholders in the sector to submit their views on agriculture ost 2o13 and towards 2020. To read the full submission from IOFGA please click on the link below. Submission 2020 Strategy

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Socio-economic Implications of GM Cultivation in Ireland

In order to make an informed analysis on the impacts of GMO’ s it is important to examine the overall impact that the cultivation of GMO’s has had in countries where they have been growing them continually. It is very difficult to obtain data for countries south of the equator so the most obvious country [...]

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Pre budget submission 2009

IOFGA have in the past few years submitted several prebudget submissions to the government. The aim of these submissions is to highlight to the government the need to allocate sufficient resources to the organic sector in order to ensure that it can develop to meet the domestic demand for organic products. Here is our submission [...]

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Organic Farming Action Plan

The Organic Farming Action Plan is a document was was drawn up in 2008. The document is the result of the work of the National Steering Group for the organic sector. The group was made up of different stakeholders from the sector in Ireland. The action plan is the bluebrint which outlines the work which [...]

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