Events

  • Securing our Food Sovereignty 

    Feeding Ourselves Webinar Tuesday, May 19th @ 15:30 – 17.00 As global shocks expose the fragility of Ireland’s input-dependent, export-oriented food system,we ask – what would it take to secure our food sovereignty?  The session will explore how measures including a stronger domestic food economy, public procurement and changes in trade […]

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  • Land Use & Local Food Futures

    FEEDING OURSELVES GATHERING 2026 Report from Day 1 – Thursday 26th March 2026 Feeding Ourselves 2026 was a four-day gathering held from the 26th to the 29th of March in Cloughjordan. It brought together local food producers, community food organisers, researchers, advisors, and advocates from across the agri-food, land use, […]

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  • Feeding Ourselves 2026 – local communities, local producers

    What can we do about speculators and millionaires buying or leasing all available farmland? Why are there so few vegetable growers left, supplying local markets? How, in these troubled global times, with trade tariffs and wars for oil shaking the structural realities of business-as-usual, can communities feed themselves without costing the […]

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  • Seeds, Joint Struggle and Staying on your Land in Palestine

    At Feeding Ourselves in Cloughjordan this year, we continued with our joint struggle, shared solidarity activities with farmers in Palestine. We brought Mahmoud Zwahre in from the West Bank via live video link on the Friday night, to tell us about farming there with settler attackers constantly increasing. Mahmoud pointed to […]

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  • Feeding Ourselves Gathering 2026  – Let’s do this!

    Welcome to Feeding Ourselves 2026! This is our annual gathering, one which serves a growing Community of Practice of local food producers and organisers, community food advocates, agri-food and land-use researchers, food justice campaigners, Short Food Supply Chain (SFSC) advisors and local food facilitators. Feeding Ourselves the gathering takes place […]

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