Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 April 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Overview of Land Use: EPA and Teagasc

3:25 pm

Mr. Phillip O'Brien:

No, that was not my reading of last week's document. Working group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, was examining adaptations and impacts. It pointed to the fact that global food security was threatened, particularly by how climate change would impact on the ability of developing countries to produce food for themselves and others.