Sub-Saharan Africa has seen widespread economic growth since 1995. But increased agricultural productivity is needed to translate that growth into poverty reduction.
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It’s important to question whether the promotion of urban agriculture can actually help people, or whether other solutions should be explored.
Building on local experience and having access to current and expected climate trends is crucial to adapting to climate change for farmers in semi-arid regions.
Water footprinting is meant to help countries use water more efficiently. But it may cause more problems than it solves.
Growing population, growing demand for food, climate change: Australia’s rural lands are facing a number of pressures. So how can we sustainably use them in the future?
Climate change will make it harder to eat healthily.
Agriculture featured prominently at the 2015 Forum on China-Africa Co-operation, but the reality has yet to catch up to the hype about China’s involvement in African agriculture.
Cuban farming is a model of agroecology – growing food without heavy use of fossil fuel or chemicals. But closer relations with the U.S. could push Cuba back toward large-scale industrial farming.
Eating meat means greenhouse emissions. But the emissions from growing crops may have been underestimated, meaning that a climate-friendly diet isn’t as straightforward as simply going vegetarian.
Using historical records, researchers determine that wine harvests are happening earlier in France and that the changing climate could make it harder to grow in today’s wine regions.
Modern agriculture is synonymous with monoculture. That lack of diversity is bad news for plants’ natural immune defenses. Researchers are figuring out how to help plants fend off microbes – without pesticides.
Fossil fuel emissions are slowing, but another major climate problem is becoming clear: food production.
Climate change means the number of overweight and obese people will fall by 2050, but these benefits will be massively outdone by a rise in underweight and malnourished people.
Agriculture can only contribute to rural growth and development to the benefit of all if it links with an inclusive and diverse rural non-farm economy.
In its first environmental case post-Scalia, the Supreme Court rebuffs farm and ranching interests that opposed the EPA’s multistate plan to restore Chesapeake Bay using the Clean Water Act.
Australians eat a lot of water. Nearly 500 L is required to produce the food each of us eats every day.
Nitrogen inputs in African soil must be carefully used. If they’re not, there will be unintended consequences for the environment and human health.
To achieve its ambition of becoming a middle income country, Uganda must accelerate the movement of workers from agriculture and the informal sector into modern industries.
Farms on Sydney’s fringes supply 20% of the city’s food. That could drop by more than half if urban sprawl isn’t kept in check.
The case for why this dog-sized rather laid-back herbivore should be reintroduced to the UK.
Top contributors
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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
