Agriculture & Environment Blog Archive
Here you will find an archive of Agriculture & Environment Blog articles published before 1 January 2020, divided into their relevant categories.
Agriculture
Energy
Environment
A clear and present danger: Plant disease and invasive species
Reading Time: 3 minutes The plant disease and invasive species threat posed to the environment in Northern Ireland is increasing, and likely to continue to do so due to factors such as increasing world trade and the potential impacts
Managing Flood risk in Northern Ireland: Are we prepared?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Prolonged heavy rainfall over the winter of 2015 has shown how devastating flooding can be to homes, businesses and critical infrastructure. With predictions that localised flooding will become an ever more common occurrence, how prepared
Climate change: picking up where we left off
Reading Time: 3 minutes At the beginning of the last Assembly mandate in 2011, the Research and Information Service wrote a piece on the possibility of new legislation for Northern Ireland, ‘Climate Change: the need to raise the game’
