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Written by Michael Fox
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Tuesday, 28 March 2006 |
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Many people are familiar with allotments, plots of ground rented by individuals from local authorities in order to cultivate vegetables (and sometimes fruit) for their own private domestic use. |
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Written by John Fitzgerald
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Tuesday, 30 November 2004 |
It is safe to say, that The Green Party, An Comhaontas Glas, has a support base
that is located mainly in the large urban centres of Ireland. In the Dail, five
of the party's six TD's are from our capital city, Dublin. The sixth, Dan Boyle,
is from Cork City. Most green representatives in local politics, with the exception
of deputy leader, Cllr Mary White and Cllr Tom Kelly from Meath, are seated in
either city, town or borough councils.
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Written by Nora Hennessy
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Tuesday, 30 November 2004 |
Public's support required to assist developing countries by purchasing fair-trade
products
As you calculate the pros and cons of producing with decoupling payment, spare
a thought for African’s coffee farmers. Coffee provides the livelihood of
millions of African farmers and their families. Some 5% to 10% of African farmers
are engaged in coffee growing and rely on this enterprise as their main source
of income. But coffee prices have plummeted in the international market since
the start of the millennium.
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Written by Dr Alan Matthews
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Tuesday, 30 November 2004 |
Farming currently faces significant changes in its policy environment. For decades,
Irish agriculture has benefited from the generous support arrangements provided
by the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The CAP has prevented competition
on the EU market from lower-cost overseas suppliers by means of high import levies
and duties; it has purchased surplus production into intervention stores to keep
market prices high, and it has disposed of these surpluses with the aid of export
subsidies on the markets of Russia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.
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Farming 