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Chris Smaje in Ireland this October

SAVE THE DATE Cork: Wednesday 28th October – details to be announcedDublin: Thursday 29th October – details to be announced Finding Light in a Dark Age: Reimagining Farming, Food and Community We’re delighted to welcome Chris Smaje to Ireland this October for two public events in Cork and Dublin. Chris […]
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Save the Date: Feeding Ourselves Local Food Symposium in Dublin

Thursday 29th October 2026 | Trinity College Dublin In October, Feasta, Talamh Beo and Cultivate, in collaboration with Trinity Sustainability, will host the Feeding Ourselves Local Food Symposium, marking the culmination of the two-year Strengthening Local Food Economies in Ireland research and advocacy project. With support from the IEN, the […]
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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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