Most food in Australia remains free of PFAS, but a new study has found it can build up in cattle on PFAS-affected farms. But there are ways to manage the land and livestock to reduce the risks.
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Stricter measures had major impacts on farmers’ livelihoods and food security.
A functioning market eases pressure on rangelands, lowers animal mortality, and stabilises prices.
Growing native grasses as cattle forage is an example of working lands conservation – balancing human use of the land with conservation goals.
Andrea Arnold’s new film chronicles the daily strife of Luma – a dairy cow and mother.
A farming community in north-west Spain may hold the answer to coexistence with wild carnivores.
How can nations prevent more pandemics like COVID-19? One priority is reducing the risk of diseases’ jumping from animals to humans. And that means understanding how human actions fuel that risk.
We analysed the legal systems regulating the wildlife trade in China. Here’s what we found.
But the national goal of cutting meat intake by 30% over the next ten years is likely to be missed.
At the centre of the persisting violence in the north-central region of Nigeria is bad governance.
Pandemic viruses arise from raising, harvesting and eating animals. Policy strategy for averting the next pandemic should include supporting those already seeking to make plant-based dietary changes.
Cow burps and farts are no joke – they’re a big factor in climate change. A new study shows that daily seaweed supplements could tame this major methane source while saving ranchers money.
The National Farmers’ Federation has called on the Morrison government to commit to net-zero greenhouse gas emission by 2050.
We often think of antibiotic resistance in terms of humans, but it is actually a complex problem of interrelated factors including animal health, the environment and food production.
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Professor & Director, Primary Industries Climate Challenges Centre, The University of Melbourne
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Victoria's Chief Environmental Scientist, EPA Victoria; Honorary Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University
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Researcher, Safeguarding Health through Infection Prevention (SHIP), Glasgow Caledonian University
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PhD Candidate, Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds
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Principal Scientist and Associate Professor, CGIAR System Organization
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Professor and research co-lead of Safeguarding Health through Infection Prevention, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Faculty Lecturer, Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan
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Associate Dean and Professor of Animal Science. Director, World Food Center, University of California, Davis
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Ph.D. Student in Animal Biology, University of California, Davis
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Regional Coordinator, Institute for Security Studies
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Professor of Comparative Pathobiology and Dean Emerita, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine; Senior Fellow, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Professor of Epidemiology, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
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Tufts University
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Health Behaviours Researcher, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford
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Assistant Professor of Wildlife Ecology, Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University
