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For centuries Native Americans intercropped corn, beans and squash because the plants thrived together. A new initiative is measuring health and social benefits from reuniting the “three sisters.”
Most of the wastewater produced worldwide receives no treatment and the nutrients in wastewater go to waste. Here’s how households can draw these nutrients from urine and use them as fertilisers.
Oilseeds in local diets could be the answer to poverty in Ghana’s savanna region.
Food security in Tigray was becoming critical even before the current armed conflict.
The best option to manage desert locusts is to manage them at their breeding sites with sustainable options, such as biopesticides.
Buffel grass causes just as much damage to native wildlife as feral cats. But with the right control measures, biodiversity can bounce back.
How Indigenous communities and a Timor-Leste NGO are reviving food sovereignty in one of Asia’s poorest countries.
There have been several severe fires on Kilimanjaro over the last few decades that have dramatically changed land cover.
An invisible crisis is brewing in US farm country as the overpumped Ogallala-High Plains Aquifer drains. The key drivers are federal farm subsidies and the tax code.
If rolled out worldwide, our method could replace a quarter of all the synthetic nitrogen fertiliser used in agriculture.
Modern agriculture releases lots of different greenhouse gas emissions, each with complex effects on the global climate.
Changing climatic conditions and ecological hazards are an important migration driver in sub-Saharan Africa.
New research shows that one-third of yearly nitrogen runoff from Midwest farms to the Gulf of Mexico occurs during a few heavy rainstorms. New fertilizing schedules could reduce nitrogen pollution.
The new initiative reproduces the core weaknesses of post-apartheid state land and agricultural policy. These have done little to improve the livelihoods of the poor.
Small, practical messaging campaigns on pesticide toxicity can lead farmers to choose safer, less-toxic pesticides.
Green diesel may be intended to reduce emissions but it is not necessarily environmentally and socially sound.
Soil loss in South Africa can have a negative impact on air quality and food security.
US farmers have suffered billions in losses due to the trade war and the coronavirus pandemic, yet surveys suggest they still back the president by a wide margin.
Rural communities are dynamic and complex. Imposing innovations that don’t speak to the needs of these communities will inhibit rural development.
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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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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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Soil Scientist, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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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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Professor & Director, Primary Industries Climate Challenges Centre, The University of Melbourne
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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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Associate Professor, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Analyst, University of Pretoria
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Chair professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Natural Sciences, UCL
