The ‘All-Island of Ireland Agri-Food Research Ecosystem Mapping Exercise Report', completed by UCD, was published at the Food-I launch event on 22nd March 2022

Irish Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue TD, and Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs of Northern Ireland, Edwin Poots, today formally launched the All-Island Food Integrity Initiative (Food-I).

The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue TD, announced funding for a new initiative that will take a food-systems approach to enhancing the sustainability of protein production across the island of Ireland. Led by the UCD Institute of Food and Health’s Prof Lorraine Brennan and Prof Fiona Doohan, the Protein-I project will focus on plant production through to human health, while paying particular attention to the development of Ireland’s rural bio-economy.