Tag: food
Stop Wasting Food
France passed food and packaging waste laws in 2016: banning single-use plastic bags and requiring supermarkets to donate unsold food to charity. They...
Big Food Threat, Small Food Opportunity
‘Big food faces annihilation unless it moves with millennials on health’ was the attention-grabbing the headline in a recent Guardian Sustainable Business article by Alison...
Pick your Phytes
Michael Gaffney peels back the layers of data surrounding the nutritional values of fruit and vegetable to find the future of Irish production may...
All the latest news from Teagasc
A SPROUT IS NOT JUST FOR CHRISTMAS
Brussels sprouts aren’t the most popular of vegetables – an annual outing with the Christmas turkey is most...
All the latest news from Bord Bia
BORD BIA SUSTAINABLE HORTICULTURE ASSURANCE SCHEME
The revision of the current Bord Bia Producer and Pre-packer standard for horticulture is near completion. The updated standard...
Horticultural health check
Independent consultant and Horticulture Industry Forum Coordinator, Stiofán Nutty, diagnoses some serious horticultural health problems and how the Forum is tackling them
The Horticulture Industry...
The EU carrot: the shape of promotional funding
Mike Neary, Manager of Horticulture with Bord Bia, explains how new thinking and EU regulations are positively shaping the future of promotional funding for...
Irish Quality Food & Drink Awards 2015 Open! – Deadline 1...
We are delighted to announce that the Irish Quality Food and Drink Awards are back for their third year. They are open...
New Sensory Food Network Launched to Support Irish Food Companies
Sensory food science is the study of how we as consumers perceive foods with each of our senses. The importance of a...