Exploring Innovative Knowledge to Support Horticulture in Ireland

Jan 12, 2024 | Innovation

CAP Network Ireland’s Innovation Hub is an initiative which identifies and analyses innovative knowledge and research which may offer potential solutions for real world challenges agriculture faces. One of the thematics our Innovation Hub is currently focusing on, is the Horticulture sector.

The Horticulture sector is a diverse, low environmental impact industry of plant and food produce and accounts for approximately 11% of total agri-food jobs in Ireland. Over the past few weeks, we have been connecting with different stakeholders across Ireland and Europe who have identified or implemented knowledge, research or innovations to strengthen the Horticulture sector.

Some of the potential solutions we have looked at to date relate to growing media, resource efficiency, circularity, diversification, market opportunities, policy innovations and improving farmers position in the marketplace through innovations in business models and supply chains.

Through our collaboration with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and together with other experts in the field, we’ll determine if and how the identified knowledge could be impactful in an Irish context and design and implement pathways for transferring this knowledge to relevant stakeholders in support of the sector.

Find out more about CAP Network Ireland and our Innovation Hub on our website.

To learn more about the Horticulture Pilot, please contact: roisin@erinn.eu

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