Reframing Food Futures: Agriculture & Climate Transition in Ireland
This special online summit will focus on analysing narratives around agriculture and food systems in the climate transition. Expert speakers will look at key themes that suggest how support might be built for accelerating the transition to a more sustainable agri-food system, in Ireland and beyond.
It will build upon the insights gathered from our recent workshop in Dublin, which brought together farmers, industry, academics, creatives, and other perspectives, to map and analyse the landscape of beliefs and assumptions underlying the debates around a sustainable future for food and farming in Ireland.
The event was designed and facilitated by Future Narratives Lab, and hosted by EIT Climate-KIC, Europe’s leading climate innovation community, as part of their partnership with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.
The first part of this summit will include a presentation from Future Narratives Lab exploring the main themes that emerged from the workshop, which are as follows:
Situating Change in Irish Culture, History & National Identity: Exploring how deep-rooted connection to land and farming is part of Irish national culture and identity, and what this tells us about how we can best make the case for a sustainable agri-food system.
Farmers at the Forefront: How can we tackle the feelings of exclusion and burden that farmers often experience? Farmers need to be given agency and positioned as empowered protagonists in shaping the future - without carrying the weight of the world on their shoulders.
A Creative, Collaborative Challenge: The future of Ireland, and the wider world, depends on us imagining and achieving a new vision of our agri-food system. This will require collective innovation and creativity, across generations and disciplines. How can this be achieved in practice?
After hearing the main themes that emerged from the workshop, we will be joined by a panel including Ailbhe Gerrard, Brookfield Farm, Professor P.J. Mathews, Director of the Creative Futures Academy at University College Dublin, and Laura Costello, Head of Sustainability & Planet Services at THINKHOUSE, to speak on the "Opportunities and Challenges in Narratives around Ireland’s Agri-food System".
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