WE ARE in the midst of a real crisis in food production. Increasingly farmers and food producers are being paid well below an economic level for their produce and the general public seem totally unaware.

Households are dumping up to €1,000 worth of food each year with families being urged to be less wasteful.

THE turkey and not your shopping cart is the only thing that should get stuffed this year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

With some careful Christmas planning, we can avoid throwing out too much food, Kya deLongchamps reports