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Fault lines appear to be forming in the department's relationship with the Stormont Agriculture Committee.

Stormont Agriculture Committee has agreed to a second formal complaint to the permanent secretary about the timeliness of important briefing documents.

February 19, 2021 5:02 pm Staff at an influential Stormont committee have said it has been “difficult” to get responses from an environmental planning quango set up by councils to oversee agricultural planning applications. The Stormont Agriculture Committee has warned it could now be forced to use its legal powers to compel Shared Environmental Services (SES) to attend. Section 44 of the 1998 Northern Ireland Act is not something triggered lightly. It gives the Northern Assembly the power to require any person to provide evidence or produce documents relating to transferred matters conce...

Economy Minister Dianne Dodds has revealed intentions to launch an independent strategic review on the future of Northern Ireland's agri-food sector.

February 9, 2021 7:49 pm A world-renown foods rights academic has warned that the Covid-19 pandemic has caused a “hunger crisis” even in some of the world’s richest countries. Michael Fakhri, a professor at the University of Oregon School of Law, specialising in human rights, food law, development, and commercial law, said his “best guess” was that it would take at least a decade before the world recovers economically from the pandemic. Speaking tonight (February 9) at the Food, Farming and Land Convention – a two-day conference examining the future of sustainable farming and l...