The fragility of food production and the economics behind Ireland’s food security risk
Jim Power is one of Ireland's best-known economists. Having grown up on a farm in County Waterford, he has always had a particular passion for the economics of food production and farming. Jim recently crunched 20 years of consumer data that tell an alarming story about the viability of our food production sector.
Episode Highlights:
Jim joins Mick Kelly of GIY to reveal the real-world impact of aggressive retail pricing, rising input costs combined with falling incomes, and policy blind spots.
In a rapidly changing and dangerous world where we rely on imports of cheap food, they also discuss how Ireland can become more food-secure and avoid sleepwalking towards a crisis of shortages.
