DEFRA, the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, has been working to help the government enact sustainable policies. They also have been working on legislation to reduce climate change.

There are 3 branches of government in Ireland. They are the legislature, executive and judiciary.

Currently there are 15 departments in the Irish government, as follows:

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism

Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources

Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs

Department of Defence

Department of Education and Science

Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment

Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government

Department of Finance

Department of Foreign Affairs

Department of Health and Children

Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform

Department of Social and Family Affairs

Department of Transport

Department of the Taoiseach

Taoiseach refers to the title of a head of an Irish government. You will find more information on the Irish government website, to which there is a link below.

Within the UK the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has comprehensive information on converting to organic farming. This can be found via the Businesses & self-employed section of the Gov.UK website. Further information can be found on the website of the Organic Farming Research Foundation.

Richard Henry Ronald Benyon MRICS (born 21 October 1960) is a British Conservative Party politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Newbury since 2005 and a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs since May 2010.

Center for Rural Affairs was created in 1973.