Major African cocoa plants in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana have stopped or cut processing because they cannot afford to buy beans.
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Green reforms are piling additional pressure on farmers struggling to make ends meet.
We know industrial farming needs to change. But regenerative agriculture may not be the transformation our global food system needs.
Do farmers fare better together in the face of a changing climate?
Adopting more environmentally conscious farm models would safeguard our agricultural exports, cut emissions and help protect nature.
The basic payments scheme that sustains 90% of farmers will be gone by 2028, but the reductions are biting already.
The federal budget included $32 million to promote schemes in which farmers who adopt sustainable practices earn money on private markets. Evidence suggests the approach is plagued with problems.
Nanotechnology, which approaches materials at the scale of atoms and molecules, has numerous applications for food production. Applying nanotech could revolutionize the agricultural sector.
Instead of boycotting palm oil, source it from pastureland and not recently logged forests.
Crises in the Darling River have raised questions about cotton and rice farming in the Murray Darling Basin.
If the food movement’s goal is to reclaim a corporatised food system by ‘rebuilding the public sphere from the ground up’, what does this look like?
A recent summit in Ottawa on what’s known as agroecology has shown that more equitable and sustainable methods of producing food are not only possible, they’re beginning to spread around the world.
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Head of Energy, Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
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Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Emeritus Professor of Biotechnology, University of South Wales
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Communications, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Griffith Law School, Griffith University
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Research associate, UCL
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Canada Research Chair in Equitable and Sustainable Food Systems, Lakehead University
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Lecturer in Management, University of Leeds
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Professor, Chemistry, University of Toronto
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Research Manager, Yayasan Inobu
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PhD Candidate, University of Technology Sydney
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PhD Candidate in Geography, Lancaster University
