The impact of the Ukraine – Russia war on global food security. Since the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic we have seen that one of the major fallouts of lockdowns has been the disturbance of global supply chains. Every economic sector on the planet has been impacted by this unprecedented stop in the movement of …
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Credit: Mooganic @ Flickr.com India has broken all previous known record temperatures and it has occured far earlier than previous years with the country already experiencing multiple heatwaves since March and we have not even entered the peak summer months yet. In the next series of blogs I want to explore the current trends in …
The covid-19 pandemic is one of the most serious crisies faced by humanity at least in the last 50 years. It has had an impact on every country and individual in the world and the initial outbreak left our globalized world at a standstill and nearly 5.5 million people dead with nearly 300 million people …
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“Boris Johnson launch of COP26” by UK Prime Minister is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Writen by Bozhidar Tsvetkov, MScCCAFS student – affiliated with the Ryan Institute at NUI Galway. For the past 6 years since the creation of the Paris climate agreement one issue that has prevented the finalisation of the guidelines for the full implementation of the …
This past Wednesday marked the occasion of the annual IFIAD conference which discusses recent development in the Agri food sector both at home and abroad. This was my first time attending this conference and I was very impressed with the lignup of speakers assembled. Among those was Pippa Hackett the Irish Minister for Land Use …
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