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If we want to keep our food supplies secure, understanding what farmers need in diesel supplies now – and in coming months – will be crucial.
What is the future for Britain’s sheep? Farmers are choosing to keep fewer animals.
Sustained extreme heat can damage, weaken and kill all living things, from wheat crops to koalas and fruit bats.
Some tout wetland drainage as providing numerous benefits, including reducing emissions. This assertion is not supported by science.
If the systems sending our food to market are just overseen by machines, then there’s going to be issues that could result in a food crisis.
Pressure on farming is intensifying. AI promises some relief through productivity gains – but could create other problems.
At its best, the scheme changes lives – like an abattoir worker using savings to supply clean drinking water to his Vanuatu village. But exploitation remains rife.
The prevailing narrative that feeding the world is the preserve of industrial agriculture is based on flawed logic.
Like living beyond your financial means, using more water than nature can replenish can have catastrophic results.
Rural and environmental issues are high on the political agenda in the upcoming Welsh election.
Climate-smart agricultural technologies increase crop sales revenue for farmers in the Sahel region.
Things have come a long way since the 1980s. But women still do not have the equal economic access they deserve.
By boosting beneficial microbes, researchers hope to increase crop resilience while reducing the use of synthetic nitrogen fertilisers.
The global appetite for factory farmed chicken was deliberately engineered by an industry searching for ‘efficiency’.
More extreme weather is set to cause more more problems for farmers and supermarkets in getting food to consumers.
Many people understand rural America through stereotypes. Two scholars who study rural communities bust 6 of those myths, complicating the conventional wisdom.
London, Ont., adopted Canada’s first stand-alone Urban Agriculture Strategy in 2017. Yet, almost eight years later, many of the strategy’s goals remain unrealized.
A new study finds farmers can enjoy increased crop yeilds under partial shade of solar panels long after they stop working decades from now.
Improved manure recycling is one measure being proposed that could help Ukraine’s soil recover from misuse of fertilisers.
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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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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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Lecturer in Ecology, University of New England
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Professor of Sustainable Development, University of Notre Dame
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