Strengthen interdisciplinary understandings of the current food system policies and regulation in Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, together with their alignments, conflicts and necessary trade-offs.
Objectives
To map current food system policies and regulation in Ireland and Northern Ireland., and identify unintended consequences and potential food system co-benefits of current policies and regulation across the IOI.
To identify key opportunities for improving policy coherence and collaboration based on current food system policies and regulation on the IOI.
To identify how the UK-NI-ROI-EU food relationships might evolve and how current geopolitics and world events might shape and change the functionality of these future relationships to ensure food security for IOI.
To determine, within this uncertainty and change, how to push for food system transformation, to deliver better outcomes.
To identify the implications for the IOI of the UK’s post-Brexit trade agreement taking into account G7, G20 and WTO trade policy positions and the global supply chain.