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The debate about pesticides often gets polarised, pitching farmers against consumers.
Humans and animals can hide from extreme heat. But plants have no escape. To protect our crops from the heat to come will likely mean modifying them.
The study provides reason for optimism about the effects of minimum wage policies on poverty.
Whether true or not, the UK’s political parties have failed to quash the perception that they prioritise cities.
As climate change threatens their food supply, migratory birds may find help in an unlikely place.
Through collaboration and resource sharing, smallholder rice farmers can enhance their productivity and achieve a fully mechanised farming system.
Agroecology could be an effective way to address food insecurity and respond to the climate crisis. However, significant hurdles remain.
Rock dust is only part of the story of soil. Living creatures, many of them too tiny to see, keep that soil healthy for growing everything from food to forests.
NZ’s sheep industry could be one of the biggest losers with the rise of alternative proteins. Once profitable industries will need to be ready to pivot away from animal-based products.
We’ve known about dryland salinity for a century. But while we’ve made progress, the problem hasn’t yet been solved.
Despite improvements in disaster response management since the Abbotsford floods of 2021, long-term animal welfare remains woefully underappreciated in B.C.
Green subsidy reforms are alienating farmers reeling from sky-high production costs.
Cattle are major producers of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. But there are methods that can reduce their climate impact – if ranchers have incentive to use them.
In the face of growing social and environmental challenges, organizations in the food and agriculture sector are increasingly turning to nature for inspiration.
Agricultural sustainability is as much about power and sovereignty as it is about soil, water and crops.
Human health depends on having a liveable planet and this is inextricably linked to food systems.
Nano-enabled pesticides could pose huge risks and they aren’t being regulated effectively enough yet.
Kenya’s smallholder farmers aren’t using antibiotics properly, some are of poor quality and some antibiotics are being found in milk.
Cotton is one of the world’s largest crops and is harvested with large, heavy machines. Robotic harvesting could yield higher-quality cotton with less damage to plants and soil.
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
