Bord Bia is promoting the green credentials of Irish food produce to food industry leaders attending the two-day Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture (GFIA) in Abu Dhabi.

New American technology promises three crops per year using six inches of soil with 20% of the normal watering requirement.

The focus on how to feed the world’s growing population from a limited arable area is usually on Africa and other tropical or arid countries.

A New York-based company has raised over $14m (€10.3m) of equity capital in a bid to go worldwide with its use of mushrooms and agricultural wastes to manufacture an environmentally responsible alternative to traditional foam packaging, insulation, and other plastic-based materials.