'Huge amount of uncertainty' around nature law's impact on food production

A number of steps need to be taken to get "rural approval and rural co-operation".

This law aims to put measures in place to restore at least 20% of the EU’s land and sea areas by 2030, and all ecosystems in need of restoration by 2050.

There is a "huge amount of uncertainty" around what impact the Nature Restoration Law will have on "food production, and ultimately food security", farmers have warned. 

The contentious law was passed by EU environment ministers this week, and the Irish Farmers' Association president Francie Groman said that while this was "no great surprise", he feels the Irish Government "was wrong to support the introduction of this law without the completion of an impact assessment and a dedicated budget to support its implementation".