The prime minister appears to want to make it easier for backpackers to work on Australian farms.
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Making it easier for holidaying backpackers to work on Australian farms will make it harder for Pacific Islanders, and increase exploitation on farms.
Roasted mopane caterpillars are eaten in Livingstone, Zambia.
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Insects are an excellent tool to fight hunger and malnutrition because they are abundant and nutritious.
Rice fields in Madagascar. There is a project in the country to increase climate resilience in the rice sector.
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The private-sector plays an increasing role helping agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa adapt to a changing climate.
Healthy soils can hold water even during droughts.
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Adapting to climate change means improving soil health, so it can hold more water (even during droughts).
Support for land redistribution tends to be stronger among economically disadvantaged South Africans.
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A survey shows that support for land reform in South Africa differs according to race.
Farmers in Ethiopia evaluate traits of wheat varieties.
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More action is needed to increase soil organic matter for the sake of improved nutrition.
Cooling dairy cows with fans and misters at Pacheco Dairy in Kerman, Calif., during a heat wave in 2006.
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Dairy cows are sensitive to heat, so farmers cool them down with sprinklers and fans. Researchers are designing better, more efficient systems to keep cows comfortable through hot California summers.
More milk from these Wisconsin dairy cows may find its way to Canada under the new trade deal.
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Canada, the US and Mexico have signed a deal to rip up the 25-year-old NAFTA and replace it with something new. But what’s actually changed?
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Informal trade between African countries is greatly underestimated. A study of patterns across Benin’s borders helps fill the knowledge gap.
This little piggy went to Genoa.
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Seems humans aren’t the only ones moving into cities in ever greater numbers.
More fruit could be left to rot in the fields.
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A new report by the Migration Advisory Committee on the impact of EU migration on the UK has highlighted the reliance of farms on migrant labour.
Do we need yet another class of guest workers to pick our fruit?
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Introducing yet another special agricultural employment visa might destroy the good things about the ones we’ve got.
On the fence.
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As both beneficiary and victim of EU policies, yellowhammers are apt symbols for Brexit’s divisions.
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Vertical farms grow more food but use much more energy, so let’s consider other kinds of urban agriculture.
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The cruel link between economics and animal welfare.
Australia’s grain exports will suffer under climate change.
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Climate change will change the dynamic for major food exporters like China and the US.
Clinical trials using immune cells engineered through synthetic biology have been shown to push some patients into remission from blood cancer.
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Right now, you’re living in a kind of industrial revolution – where biotechnology, information technology, manufacturing and automation all come together to form synthetic biology.
A diversity of seeds on sale in Nanyuki market, Kenya.
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Developing countries could leapfrog industrial agriculture systems by moving to agroecology.
Scott Morrison visiting a Queensland farm this week.
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Having an envoy for drought and a prime minister keen to visit drought-affected areas puts the government under pressure to do the wrong thing.
Africa’s waterways, like the Barotse floodplain in Zambia, must be properly managed.
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African countries need to urgently develop coherent and strategic policies around water, land and agriculture.