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Monocultures - vast expanses of a single crop - may look pretty, but mounting research shows they are likely bad for environment. And in turn that’s bad news for farms as well.
School enrolment rates in sub-Saharan Africa have increased markedly in recent years, but it is failing its newly educated young by not creating jobs commensurate with their education.
Climate change is affecting all regions of the globe. But some places, such as Africa, are more vulnerable than others.
There’s a battle going on in your garden between invasive and valuable domestic pollinators. Here’s how to tilt the fight in favor of our humble bumble bee.
Australia’s emerging agriculture boom can last much longer than the mining boom – but the industry needs policies that will encourage investment.
Insects are largely hidden from view or maligned unfairly, but they make a tremendous contribution to the Australian economy.
It’s easy to poke holes in UKIP’s plans for agriculture.
The world’s population is set to double by the end of the century. But there is only so much land available for food production.
As the Coalition government prepares its second budget, how is the “five pillar” economy promised by Tony Abbott faring?
The change of lifestyle from 10,000 years ago had a dramatic impact on the male divefrsity revealed in DNA.
Cheap “ugly food” campaigns in supermarkets have been criticised as not really helping to cut food waste. But they do, by ensuring that more of what farmers grow actually makes it into the shops.
Plaid Cyrmu’s agricultural policies clash with Wales’ current course of action.
Studying beads, shells and animal teeth – ornaments which carried deep cultural meaning to prehistoric man – reveals that northern Europeans resisted the spread of agriculture for centuries.
Little is known about how parasitic plants live side-by-side with their hosts. But new genetic techniques may help scientists gain further insights.
Urban and regional planners need to play a bigger role in bringing healthy food to cities and towns. One research project aims to change that.
The Queensland government wants companies to use waste water from coal seam gas extraction for useful purposes such as recharging aquifers. New CSIRO research shows that, with careful monitoring, it can be done.
Precision agriculture harnesses technology to help farmers grow more food using less water, fertilizer, pesticide, fuel and labor.
New research upends the previous theory that tsetse flies – and the disease they carry – were the main reason the spread of livestock domestication in Africa stalled out for a thousand years.
Meat uses a lot of resources - between three and ten times as much as plants for the same amount of protein. The rich world might be slowly losing its taste for meat, but the developing world isn’t.
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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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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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Soil Scientist, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
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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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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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Senior Analyst, University of Pretoria
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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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Visiting Adjunct Professor, School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
