Molly Garvey

Molly Garvey is an Irish host, researcher and producer from rural Wicklow working across food and farming initiatives in Ireland and the EU. She helps teams, groups, and organisations work and communicate better internally and with others, at all levels. She has been interested in the power of collaboration to shape better food opportunities since her MSc in Cooperative Business, putting theory into practice as Community Manager with Irish food education social enterprise GIY (Grow It Yourself), working with food and agriculture start-ups in the Netherlands, and most recently securing support from Irish farming associations and industry to research the potential of collaboration as key to Ireland’s agri-food edge through a Nuffield Ireland Farming Scholarship. Visits to farms and food enterprises outside of Europe has reinforced her proposal that “unlikely collaborations”, and the skills needed to build them, are central to tackling the trickiness of meeting our food-fuel-fibre needs in the long term, supporting farmer livelihoods, sustainable Irish industry, and our pride in our produce. In her spare time, she volunteers as co-chair of Community Gardens Ireland and organises singing events.

Unlocking Ireland’s Agri-food Edge Through Strategic Collaboration