Within Ireland, we collaborate with the Irish farmer’s group Talamh Beo, which is a member of the global agroecological farming group La Via Campesina.
If you’re a farmer in Ireland and you’re interested in getting practical information on agroecology, exchanging experience-based insights and contributing to the global agroecology movement, you can join Talamh Beo here.
Talamh Beo core member and farmer Fergal Anderson is a Feasta member and an Environmental Pillar representative on the NESC Agricultural and Climate Action Working Group.
Feasta ecological economist Caroline Whyte is an advisory partner of ARC2020, a pan-European network promoting EU policy that supports agroecology. Some recent work by ARC2020, which emphasises the wellbeing economy, include this report on their rural resilience campaign, ‘Nos Campagnes en Resilience’, and their work on the Feeding Ourselves workshops in Cloughjordan.
Caroline is researching and promoting broader economic measures which could ease expansionary pressure on agriculture, making it easier for farmers to transition to agroecological practices. In May 2022 she published a Feasta discussion paper on this subject,“Land, Labour, Housing, Money, Farms: Moving the economic goalposts of Irish agriculture.” Two online workshops were held in April and May 2022, which included feedback on the paper from commentators in many different sectors, including Talamh Beo, ARC2020, academia, Basic Income Ireland, the trade union movement and the social justice movement.
Agroecology is also one of the themes of our ongoing Food for Thought events, which are held annually in County Mayo, in partnership with Afri.
