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Though the Common Agricultural Policy has few friends, it will be incredibly tough to replace it with something better.
Large livestock farms, known as CAFOs, have polluted air and water in many communities. A recent court decision will force CAFOs to report their air emissions from manure and other sources.
Your cup of coffee might cost the world more than you think, but a little knowledge goes a long way if you want to make an eco-friendly choice.
Farmers are setting fire to their straw and spreading air pollution across northern India.
The harassment of informal food vendors by national and municipal governments remains a major impediment to improving the resilience of the urban poor in African cities.
As South Africa prepares to introduce a national minimum wage, a new study shows that it will have a varied impact. Some parts of the economy are likely to be negatively affected.
Climate change, deforestation, overfishing and hydrocarbon exploitation threatens one of Africa’s oldest lake’s, Lake Tanganyika.
The western media’s focus on events at home like the US elections and the UK Brexit referendum has come at the expense of reporting on the famine that’s unfolding in Africa.
Crop probiotics are natural, eco-friendly and could provide huge benefits for Australian farmers. But our loose regulations means genuine products are competing with snake oil.
Unless they trust climate change programmes, communities will continue to plunder forests rendering such interventions redundant.
To help feed a growing world population, restore biodiversity and slow climate change, a geologist calls for a moon shot effort to restore healthy soil around the world.
The impact of plant disease may be reduced if people are made aware of the many pathways for plant-killing microbes – and why preventing their spread matters to us all.
Taxing meat may be unpopular, but an urgent problem calls for an urgent solution.
Whether or not farmers believe human activities are changing the climate (many don’t), an agriculture specialist urges them to pursue payments for techniques that return carbon to the soil.
Sydney, Melbourne and many other areas can expect to pay more for veg from next month, after widespread crop losses in Bowen, a major source of winter vegetables such as tomatoes, beans and capsicum.
Conventional wisdom says we need industrial agriculture to feed the world. Not so, says geologist David Montgomery: Practices that focus on creating healthy soil can transform agriculture.
Getting local farmers involved in school feeding schemes has the potential to boost livelihoods and revitalise rural economies in Africa.
Urban consumers in Africa are rapidly growing and they are demanding high quality, pesticide free food.
There is no longer any good reason to waste any type of water. We have the technology to turn waste water into a vital resource.
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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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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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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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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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Professor & Director, Primary Industries Climate Challenges Centre, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Natural Sciences, UCL
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Senior Analyst, University of Pretoria
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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
