Businesses to fund wildlife ponds, hedgerows and woodlands on Irish farms as part of ReFarm project

ReFarm has already started to fund nature-positive actions and will continue to do so over the five-year period of the project

Professor Jane Stout and Professor Martha O'Hagan have welcomed the ReFarm project saying it "brings together the farming community and private sector investors to provide critical funding for farmers to restore nature on their land, and a mechanism to scale this up".

Businesses will pay for the creation and management of wildlife ponds, hedgerows, woodlands and species-rich grasslands on a number of Irish farms under a new pilot project. 

ReFarm is a collaboration between Trinity College Dublin, Burrenbeo Trust and local and international businesses. The project aims to make ‘farming for nature’ sustainable and scalable for farmers and provide businesses with an opportunity to fund nature-positive actions on Irish farms in a way that can be reported under new EU sustainability reporting directives.