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Motivating farmers to become part of the solution...

Cattle on the Burren in Co Clare, where the Burren Programme provides financial support to help farmers conserve the area’s environment while allowing them to continue producing quality livestock. File Picture. 

“The key challenge is how do we motivate farmers to address the climate biodiversity emergency? After all, farmers are part of the solution to all of this, they can also become the first responders to it.”

These were the sentiments expressed by Dr Brendan Dunford, manager of the Burren Programme, during a Teagasc webinar on farm sustainability last week.