By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality.

CSO data

2.4.1 The agricultural area under organic farming (which is used to indicate the Proportion of Agricultural Area Under Productive and Sustainable Agriculture) rose from 0.7% in 2001 to 2.6% by 2018.

2.5.1 There are three cattle breeds being conserved long term in a national gene-bank – Kerry, Dexter and Irish Moiled. The number of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture secured in conservation facilities (either medium or long-term) increased by over a third between 2000 and 2019, rising from 1,044 to 1,415.

2.5.2 In 2018, 89% of our local breeds were classified as being at risk, with 11% not at risk.