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Fresh produce at a market in Blantyre, Malawi. Supplied

Connecting food waste and sanitation services can help African farmers

Federico Davila, University of Technology Sydney; Alice Mutiti Mweetwa, University of Zambia; Dana Cordell, University of Technology Sydney; Frank Mnthambala, Cranfield University; Gudina Terefe Tucho, Jimma University, and Ruben Sakrabani, Cranfield University

Across Africa less than 10% of the population is connected to a sewer system. But the waste could be used elsewhere.
Harmful chemicals in shampoo and other personal products can cause real harm once they’re washed down the drain. Shutterstock

Companies should take charge of the potential toxins in common products

Dana Cordell, University of Technology Sydney; Dena Fam, University of Technology Sydney, and Nick Florin, University of Technology Sydney

Regulation can’t keep up with the thousands of harmful chemicals that wash down our drains. Rather, companies should take responsibility for their products – before they hit the market.
Sydney’s farms on the urban fringe produce 10% of the city’s fresh vegetables. Alpha/Flickr

Urban sprawl is threatening Sydney’s foodbowl

Dana Cordell, University of Technology Sydney; Brent Jacobs, University of Technology Sydney, and Laura Wynne, University of Technology Sydney

Farms on Sydney’s fringes supply 20% of the city’s food. That could drop by more than half if urban sprawl isn’t kept in check.
Farming makes a huge contribution to global greenhouse emissions, mainly through methane from livestock. Billy Hathorn/Wikimedia Commons

Meat the future: new book sets out the effects of the world’s diet

Stuart White, University of Technology Sydney and Dana Cordell, University of Technology Sydney

Meat uses a lot of resources - between three and ten times as much as plants for the same amount of protein. The rich world might be slowly losing its taste for meat, but the developing world isn’t.
With growing pressures on our land, the aim will be to ‘farm smarter, not harder’. choctruffle/Flickr

Agriculture in Australia: growing more than our farming future

Peter Langridge, Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics; Dana Cordell, University of Technology Sydney, and Michael D’Occhio, University of Sydney

AUSTRALIA 2025: How will science address the challenges of the future? In collaboration with Australia’s chief scientist Ian Chubb, we’re asking how each science discipline will contribute to Australia…
Manure is a great source of phosphorus, but we’ve largely removed it from agriculture. Flickr/Amy Alana Star

Time for policy action on global phosphorus security

Stuart White, University of Technology Sydney and Dana Cordell, University of Technology Sydney

Without phosphorus we cannot produce food. Yet even as pressure mounts on this critical non-renewable resource, there is a startling lack of global governance of its use and supply. If no one takes responsibility…
Your cafe breakfast was brought to you by phosphorus, but we’re running out. caccamo/Flickr

Securing phosphorus: food for thought, and food for the future

Dana Cordell, University of Technology Sydney; Stuart White, University of Technology Sydney, and Tim Prior, University of Technology Sydney

Take a moment to think about your next meal. It will contain phosphorus. You contain phosphorus. In fact, you can’t survive without phosphorus: it’s in our DNA and our cell membranes. Nothing can survive…

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