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UK supermarket shelves have been left bare of fresh produce in recent weeks – growing more fruit and veg in cities could reduce the severity of future shortages.
Farm consolidation, increasing land concentration and expanding investor ownership of farmland is leading to growing land inequality in the Canadian Prairies.
Corporations restrict what farmers can do with their own seeds, as well as their farm equipment when it breaks down.
Average farm machinery use in Africa is among the lowest in the world.
New research from China shows how the loss of insects is destabilising food webs.
Yes, there are forever chemicals in biosolids we use on farms. Here’s why we don’t need to panic … yet
Tinkering around the margins of English farms won’t benefit biodiversity, research suggests.
Amendments to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations fail to address the power imbalances at the heart of the temporary foreign worker program.
The detailed ledger will help historians reconstruct the poet’s beloved farm as it was when he and his family first lived in it.
Tigers exist in South Africa because they’re being intensively farmed for commercial trade in live individuals or their body parts.
Historically, women’s contributions to the agricultural sector often occurred outside of professional roles. ‘Lady’ Maud Williams, who discovered the Lady Williams apple, is one of those women.
Solar-powered cold storage technology is of prime significance in efforts to cut post-harvest losses.
Men in rural China spend more time in leisure or social activities, or just hanging around and resting.
The government’s approach to redistributing farmland has been mostly ineffective. Failure can be attributed to limited implementation, poor institutional capacity and corruption.
In the weeks after the war, there was talk of famine. Why hasn’t it happened?
A team of scientists unravelled the mystery of how plant roots make the most of soil moisture.
New practices aim to improve soil health, return more carbon to soil and reduce greenhouse gas losses.
Dendrobium orchids are familiar to most people in bouquets, but they are in high demand in China for use in traditional medicines. Can Beijing find ways to grow these threatened plants sustainably?
This crucial fertiliser component is mostly found in just five countries.
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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Associate Professor in Food Systems, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Centre for Regional and Rural Futures, Deakin University
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Professor, Dept of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Guelph
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Emeritus Professor, Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Adjunct Professor in Animal Welfare, Curtin University
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John M. Thompson Chair in Information Technology and Innovation and Professor, Western University
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Emeritus Professor of Agroecology and Food Politics, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University
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Research Fellow, Centre for Rural Policy Research, University of Exeter
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Lecturer in Ecology, University of New England
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Professor of Sustainable Development, University of Notre Dame
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CGIAR
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Professor, Food Economics, University of Guelph
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Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne