Archive for March, 2010
A Climate for Change – Opportunities for Carbon-Efficient Farming
Posted on 16 Mar 2010 | 0 CommentsThe Teagasc Working Group on Greenhouse Gas Emissions is pleased to announce an international conference entitled “A Climate for Change – Opportunities for Carbon-Efficient Farming” [...]
Read More »LEADER partner search
Posted on 15 Mar 2010 | 0 CommentsLongford Community Resources Limited are seeking partners for a project “to re-skill/up skill workers from a rural/small farmer/ex-construction worker context to meet future challenges and [...]
Read More »Alternative Farm Enterprises: Moon Shine Dairy Farm
Posted on 11 Mar 2010 | 0 CommentsMullingar company Moon Shine Dairy Farm has once again been recognised as one of the finest food producers in Ireland, picking up a coveted Irish [...]
Read More »Conference on Sustainable Building
Posted on 09 Mar 2010 | 0 CommentsA conference entitled ‘Retrofitting and New Build in the New Environment’ will be held on the 23 rd of April in Thurles as part of [...]
Read More »Commission steps up biomass use
Posted on 08 Mar 2010 | 1 CommentThose interested in the new Bioenergy Scheme might also be interested in the launch of a major research initiative by European Commission about the sustainable use [...]
Read More »Northern Ireland hosts first UK Network
Posted on 04 Mar 2010 | 1 CommentProgramme delivery and policy makers from across the UK will gather in Belfast later this month at the first UK National Rural Network (UK NRN) [...]
Read More »Area under organic farming increased by 7.4% between 2007 and 2008 in the EU-27
Posted on 02 Mar 2010 | 0 CommentsA recent Eurostat report shows that Organic farming in the EU27 covered 7.8 million hectares in 2008, up by 7% compared with 2007. Over a longer [...]
Read More »An Asset-Based Approach to Community Development?
Posted on 01 Mar 2010 | 1 CommentAccording to a new paper from the Carnegie Trust, asset-based community development approaches help us to begin to open up possibilities for how we begin [...]
Read More »New Sow Housing Scheme to be launched as part of revised Rural Development Programme
Posted on 01 Mar 2010 | 0 CommentsThe Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, Mr Brendan Smith TD, will shortly announce details of the new Sow Housing Scheme, to be implemented as [...]
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