Over the next couple of years there is a huge challenge to formulate and implement agri-environmental policy which can contribute to meeting the ever growing and increasingly complex challenges. Irish Farmers will need to continue to adopt sustainable practices and increasingly provide evidence of continual improvement if we are to achieve the wide range of targets that have been set for the industry. There is an increased understanding that policy needs to expand the toolkit and become more inclusive and more ‘bottom up’ and more targeted. The conference will deal with challenges faced by policy makers in the development of policies which can have an impact while not imposing unnecessary burdens on producers.
