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The Trump administration’s promise of $12 billion in aid to offset losses from retaliatory tariffs will not make up for the long-term consequences of a prolonged trade war.
The halal food sector largely relies on industrially produced meats and produce. But more and more Muslims are using the Quran to interpret halal to mean food that’s wholesome and humanely raised.
Farmers experience drought-related stress. Improving their mental health enhances adaptive capacity and resilience. Drought support must address relationships between drought and mental health.
Genetic modification rules now cover gene edited crops but exclude plants bred traditionally with the same properties.
There are other ways of exploiting victims in the ‘business model’ of modern slavery.
Despite promises, it’s hard to deny that the UK’s standards on agriculture, air pollution, and climate change are under threat.
Social farms provide health, social and educational care to disadvantaged young people.
The heatwave is unlikely to cause the price hikes of 1976 for a number of reasons.
South Africa’s smallholder farmers face major obstacles but being in groups can help them.
The use of antibiotics in raising livestock is complex. We could be moving towards a less-than-ideal result due to poor understanding, over-simplistic messaging and a rush for competitive advantage.
The powerful ideological connection between Australia and agriculture is being increasingly scrutinised. A spate of recent books have recast basic assumptions about our relationship to the land.
Brumbies have a devoted following among high country locals, despite the fact that they were despised by colonial settler farmers. Their mythical status today owes a lot to cultural figures such as Banjo Paterson.
Southern Australia’s debate may be exacerbated by climate change, but it’s not that simple.
South Africa’s land reform debate must not lose sight of the real issue: how to provide enough food to feed its people.
Many fruits, nuts and other crops rely on bees to pollinate their flowers at just the right time of year. Many farmers rent bees to get the job done at pollination time.
In choosing not to ban the live export trade even in the hottest northern months, the federal government is allowing animals to be put in conditions where they cannot possibly escape suffering.
There’s plenty of evidence that modern swill-feeding would be safe, sustainable, and popular.
Some conventional vegetable farms in Canada are starting to use organic methods in their operations.
Dingoes increase cattle yields, mountain lions reduce car crashes and vultures eat organic waste: like them or not, predators help humans.
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Senior Lecturer in Food Systems, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus Professor of Agroecology and Food Politics, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University
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CGIAR System Organization
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Research Fellow, Centre for Rural Policy Research, University of Exeter
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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Professor, Dept of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Guelph
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Centre for Regional and Rural Futures, Deakin University
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Lecturer in Ecology, University of New England
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Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Emeritus Professor, Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Professor, Food Economics, University of Guelph
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Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Water Economics, University of Adelaide
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Visiting Research Fellow in Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire
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Professorial Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University
