Meet the people behind four Irish businesses setting the bar for sustainable food production
We are in deep, deep trouble, as a planet, as a species. Climate change is garnering all the headlines but it is not the only issue. Biodiversity, on a global level, has broached critical levels; mass extinctions of habitat and wildlife is an ongoing phenomenon.
Biochemical flows — phosphorous and nitrogen used in industrial agriculture to artificially enrich soil — are at critical levels, causing eutrophication, whereby nutrient-dense chemical runoff from the land into the water system causes algal blooms to develop, food chains to alter and oxygen to deplete, eventually causing ‘dead zones’.
