About 10% of human-generated greenhouse gas emissions come from farming. Researchers are working on ways to address this piece of the global warming puzzle.
Mozambique has improved access to education, but it has to do more to meet the high expectations of its young and rapidly growing population.
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The White Paper on Developing Northern Australia represents the most comprehensive attempt yet to think through the development possibilities of the north.
Phillip Toyne lobbied for the transfer of Uluru National Park back to its traditional owners.
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Phillip Toyne, a co-founder of the national landcare program, died on Saturday morning after a long illness with cancer, leaving an indelible legacy of influence and achievement.
Multiple approaches to alleviating poverty help cater for different contexts and groups of people.
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There is no one perfect package for alleviating poverty, but there is agreement on what the elements should be. Combination and sequence of interventions varies, depending on context and beneficiaries.
India has been sweltering recently – but plants can cope better than people.
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The majority of water that people use goes to agriculture. In a drier, hungrier future, we’ll need to use what water we have with less waste. Technologies being developed now will help.
To have any chance of coaxing species like the Secretary bird back from the brink of extinction we must reconcile the pressures of food production with the need for nature conservation.
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Monocultures - vast expanses of a single crop - may look pretty, but mounting research shows they are likely bad for environment. And in turn that’s bad news for farms as well.
Despite increases in education attainment, the educated youth in sub-Saharan Africa find that there are no jobs suited to their levels of education.
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School enrolment rates in sub-Saharan Africa have increased markedly in recent years, but it is failing its newly educated young by not creating jobs commensurate with their education.
Mitigation efforts could help alleviate the impacts of climate change on food security and agriculture in Africa.
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There’s a battle going on in your garden between invasive and valuable domestic pollinators. Here’s how to tilt the fight in favor of our humble bumble bee.
Australian food exports, like beef, are regarded by Chinese buyers as clean and safe.
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The world’s population is set to double by the end of the century. But there is only so much land available for food production.
Agriculture remains a major employer in Australia but the challenges of competition, food security and climate change are on the horizon.
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Managing Director, Triple Helix Consulting; Chief Executive Officer, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research; Professorial Fellow, ANU Fenner School for the Environment and Society, Australian National University