My name is Megan Moylan. I am a student in the MSc Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security at NUIG, class of 2021/2022. I graduated from my undergrad in Arts and Culture from Mastricht University in 2019, where I did a major in Political Culture and a minor in Gender and Diversity Studies. These are two areas I hope to continue to explore in reference to climate change and food security, throughout this programme.
As climate change becomes increasingly more pressing, the efforts to make change are more important now than ever. Although I continue to make changes in my own life by following a vegetarian diet, cutting out more animal products and switching my everyday products to more sustainable and plastic free choices. I believe that the real change must come not only from the consumer but from higher up, and through policy and the transformation of food production systems.
With my father being a cattle farmer and my mother’s family running an oyster farm, I feel that I have an understanding of the challenges that come with running a farming business while also being conscious of the impacts of agriculture on greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.