By Lori Tyler Gula, USDA NIFA
In 2006, the United States, Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland launched a research and development partnership to accelerate economic development and cooperation across borders by encouraging trilateral research collaboration. In 2015, the USDA, Republic of Ireland Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Northern Ireland Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs added agriculture as a partnership priority area.
With funding from USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, researchers from the United States,…
