Understanding the connections between basic food demands and accessibility to water and energy is important when it comes to climate change and its impact on agriculture and livelihoods.
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Are you part of the 86 percent of Americans who do not live in rural America? Here’s why Trump’s choice to lead the USDA matters to you.
The case of bovine leukemia virus shows how scientists monitor health risks in our food supply and why it’s critical to revisit scientific conclusions when new technologies become available.
The environment minister recently told a conference that agriculture is as old as ‘mankind’. She’s out by a few million years.
The crops of the future must become much better at dealing with dehydration.
The gains reported in 2016 went hand in hand with overall growth in Africa over the last two decades.
Free range, sow stall free - you’ll find a number of different types of ham on the market this Christmas. But what do they mean?
Zimbabwe like many other post colonial governments across the globe continues to struggle to attain equitable land reform.
Book on agricultural innovation has had key policy impacts at the micro and macro level.
From wine to cheese, geographical origin has long been used as a mark of quality in selling a wide array of agricultural products. How do we protect it?
Long viewed simply as ‘germs,’ the hidden half of nature turns out to be crucial to the health of people and plants.
Somehow we need to grow more food to feed an expanding population while minimising the problems associated with nitrogen fertiliser use.
Trump’s plan to deport up to 3 million undocumented immigrants will likely end up rounding up many of the laborers Americans depend upon to pick their grapes and tend to their avocados.
Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce said backpackers would be better off working in Australia with a 19% tax than in New Zealand, England and Canada. Is that true? And what would a 15% or 10.5% tax mean?
The development community has overlooked the ethical dilemmas associated with raising one individual above others through farmer-to-farmer systems.
The controversy over changes to the backpacker tax shows the inadequacy of relying on backpackers as the primary labour source for a vital industry.
Australia’s city foodbowls are an important part of the nation’s food supply, but they’re under increasing pressure from growing populations.
Many US voters appear to believe that deporting illegal immigrants would boost job opportunities and wages for US workers. But economic modelling suggests different conclusions.
The current climate talks in Morocco are a golden opportunity for making strides on the adaptation of African agriculture. African countries need the tools necessary to do so.
Droughts are much bigger and slower than other natural disasters that hit Australia - meaning that despite their huge impacts, we still haven’t figured out how best to protect ourselves.
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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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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
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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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Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
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Emeritus Professor, Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Visiting Adjunct Professor, School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Natural Sciences, UCL
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Associate Professor, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Chair professor, The University of Queensland
