Sinead Mowlds

So I think it's worth remembering that Ireland has come from subsistence farming to where we are today with very high added value exports.

And when Ireland was developing, it was at a time when the entire world considered food security problems.

to mean only access, really the focus on access and availability.

We've developed beyond that and Ireland, I feel, is attempting at least to move with those times.

So food vision still is based on productivity and we need to change what productivity means.

We need to understand it to be nourishing, not feeding, right?

But there are also measures.

So that is a problem.

The underlying foundation is still locked into this system that we have.

But again, there are efforts, real genuine efforts, I feel, to address the issues.

For example, the power imbalances.

And there are some, I think, exciting things happening at the moment.

The Agri-Food Regulator exists now.

It doesn't sound like a very exciting term, but it is an office that has only recently been created and it exists solely to address unfair trading practices.

It already has teeth.

By the end of this year, it has the power to compel businesses to provide data.

It already has convictions.

It's an area where civil society, where we can all engage with, use the data and try and balance out those imbalances.

Yeah, I think that's partially correct.

It does point to the point I made earlier.