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To hit emissions targets, Wales will need to drastically reassess how 90% of its landscape is used.
The industry relies on traditional family knowledge so it has been resistant to a culture of health and safety.
Most studies on the use of pesticides are funded by those that produce the chemicals but only independent research can inform us about the best agricultural practices.
Governments need to think about global ways agricultural policies may affect the stability of the food system as a whole, beyond locally focused efforts to increase resilience in production.
Agriculture is well placed to provide employment for millions across the African continent.
Invasive pest ants cause billions of dollars worth of damage to crops, and threaten some of Australia’s World Heritage rainforests. The federal budget has pledged nearly $30m on wiping them out – but how?
The bulk of Canada’s agricultural production is in the Prairie provinces.
In Rwanda gorillas have been leaving protected areas to raid sodium rich crops.
The global population will top 9.5 billion by 2050 – but cities could play a major role in making sure everyone has enough to eat.
Feeding pigs seaweed could make them, us and the planet healthier without contributing to antibiotic resistance in bacteria.
Foot-and-mouth disease vaccines have been successful in several parts of the world. But in Tanzania it’s not that easy.
A new petition is urging state and federal governments to rein in Australia’s rampant land clearing, which worsens the risk of bushfires and threatens to undo the work of the Emissions Reduction Fund.
Australia’s farming industry will need to take full account of its obligations to its workers, its customers, society and the environment if it is to prosper in the years to 2030.
A Lancet commission has come up with a new sustainable diet that’s supposed to be the way forward.
It’s time for farmers to embrace the wetland instead of draining it.
Eating animals is natural and not evil in itself, but the torment of factory farming is a very good reason to go vegan.
Changing the way we farm is necessary – for us and the planet.
The six food trends likely to be front and centre in 2019.
Hexanal, a chemical produced naturally by fruits and vegetables, may help keep produce fresher for longer.
Top contributors
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Senior Lecturer in Food Systems, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus Professor of Agroecology and Food Politics, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University
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CGIAR System Organization
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Research Fellow, Centre for Rural Policy Research, University of Exeter
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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Professor, Dept of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Guelph
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Centre for Regional and Rural Futures, Deakin University
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Lecturer in Ecology, University of New England
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Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Emeritus Professor, Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Professor, Food Economics, University of Guelph
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Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Water Economics, University of Adelaide
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Visiting Research Fellow in Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire
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Professorial Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University
