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As soils become saltier, roots are deploying remarkable survival strategies that could help safeguard future food supplies.
Too much fertilizer disrupts the hidden world of soil-dwelling microbes that were sustaining healthy crops long before synthetic fertilizer was invented.
Well-run institutions are more resilient to financial instability and better positioned to attract long-term partnerships.
Solutions for food systems exist; scaling them is where the challenge lies.
Rice is life for billions of people. But this grain crop depends heavily on irrigation – and the looming El Niño is likely to bring dry conditions.
New research shows northwest African communities actively shaped connections and exchange between many cultures.
Cities benefit from trees, which can cool concrete sprawls and improve air quality.
Decades of farmers using more fertilizer than they needed have quietly built up large reserves of nutrients in the soil.
As the Strait of Hormuz reopens, a new study reveals what the agri-food industry’s priorities should be to overcome such an unprecedented logistical challenge.
Paraquat is banned in dozens of countries – but this cheap imported herbicide is everywhere in Australia.
Australia isn’t likely to face food shortages anytime soon. But hotter, drier weather could still take a toll on many local economies and communities.
A statewide survey finds majorities in farm country at odds with the deportation push reshaping their workforce.
Current pesticides are already failing – but science points to a way forward.
Mice numbers are likely to drop as winter sets in – an expert explains.
In Canada, agrivoltaics could produce enough electricity to eliminate the need for fossil fuels on the grid entirely, using less than one per cent of the country’s agriculture land.
Access to global markets will continue to decrease if the disease is not brought under control.
The intiative looks to reduce glare and introduce lighting that is less disruptive to wildlife.
Canada is developing sophisticated AI tools for agriculture but lacks the systems to help farmers understand, integrate and trust these technologies.
The modern food system was built on the expectation that geography would spread out the risks from droughts and floods. Climate change is testing all of that at once.
Top contributors
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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Associate Professor, Department of Entomology; African-American Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Research Fellow, Tegemeo Institute, Egerton University
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Adjunct Professor in Animal Welfare, Curtin University
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Managing Director, Triple Helix Consulting; Honorary Professor, ANU Fenner School for the Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Soil Scientist, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
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Professor of the Practice of International Development, Harvard Kennedy School
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
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Emeritus Professor, Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Executive Director, Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems, Arizona State University
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Professor & Director, Primary Industries Climate Challenges Centre, The University of Melbourne
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Visiting Adjunct Professor, School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director of the Bureau for Economic Research, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Earth System Science, UCL