Members of the Irish Rural Association protest outside the Green Party conference in Athlone. Photograph: Alan Betson Farmers and the agricultural sector need honesty and must be warned against the “nonsense that miracle solutions” to climate change are near at hand, the Green Party conference has been told. Campaigner and climate change lecturer in DCU Sadhbh O’Neill said there had been a huge policy shift on transport in the Programme for Government with resources and a “clear and consistent policy”. She told some 200 delegates, however, that the “same bold policy shift” is needed in agriculture to let farmers “know...