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Grassroots miners are disadvantaged by current regulations.
The digital transformation of Kenya’s agriculture will become a reality if it can link viable digital solution providers with potential beneficiaries.
Despite the impact of flooding on food security, it is not recognised as a threat by policymakers.
Our heavy reliance on sandbagging suggests we really don’t understand the river landscapes we inhabit. We must learn from communities that have developed better solutions to living with floods.
The agriculture and fossil fuel industries are the biggest sources of methane emissions in Australia. Here’s how signing the pledge may affect them.
For Australia’s dairy farmers the worst of times are turning out to be the best of times for farmgate prices.
Farmers face a multitude of challenges in future. Crops and livestock are not only on the line, but also the mental health of rural communities.
There are ‘jewels’ among the piles of ash that remain once sugarcane’s fibrous material is burned.
South Africa’s land reform programme is designed for a socio-economic context that doesn’t exist.
Worsening droughts and flooding likely threaten the future of cotton farming – by far the most important crop in the basin.
Honey bees, wild and native bees face threats from parasites, pesticides and habitat loss. Shorter winters, more extreme weather and more habitat destruction won’t help.
Small-scale farmers find it difficult to commercialise and add value to the food chain.
Published in 1962, ‘Silent Spring’ called attention to collateral damage from widespread use of synthetic pesticides. Many problems the book anticipated persist today in new forms.
A lack of data prevents governments and agri-food organizations from knowing what kinds of supports should be provided to reinvigorate Indigenous agricultural economies.
Environmental groups have criticised the government’s approach to nature – but what is this approach and why is it concerning?
Ghana’s northern region would be more developed now had it received a fairer share of colonial investments.
Plants have evolved several ways to deal with heavy metals that might otherwise poison or kill them.
To maintain our role as a global food bowl, Australia has to keep innovating in agricultural technology.
As water dripped in a remote cave, it left behind evidence of every monsoon season for a millennium. Scientists say it holds a warning for a country about to become the most populous on Earth.
Top contributors
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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology; African-American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Research Fellow, Tegemeo Institute, Egerton University
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Soil Scientist, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
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Chief Executive Officer, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research; Professorial Fellow, Fenner School for the Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Former Foundation Professor of Animal Welfare, University of Queensland, Curtin University
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Professor of the Practice of International Development, Harvard Kennedy School
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Emeritus Professor, Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
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Professor & Director, Primary Industries Climate Challenges Centre, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Natural Sciences, UCL
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Senior Analyst, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Visiting Adjunct Professor, School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
