Improved manure recycling is one measure being proposed that could help Ukraine’s soil recover from misuse of fertilisers.
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The optimal and safe use of agricultural inputs to increase food production is key to achieving global food security.
Our research team closely studies plants and soil to develop fertilisers that don’t harm the environment.
A tale of two poos - attitudes towards the agricultural use of human excretion-based fertiliser differ between Japan and England as new research shows.
This key fertiliser ingredient is subject to sudden price spikes.
We sampled sewage sludge from 13 wastewater treatment plants across three states. We found every resident adds microplastics to farmland, in dried sewage sludge (biosolids) used as fertiliser.
The health of our soils is poor – and getting worse. Here’s why that matters and what we can do about it
Sydney’s 14 wastewater treatment plants could be modified to also accept food waste, research shows. The ‘anaerobic digestion’ process would produce energy as well as nutrients for reuse.
Insect-eating birds such as swifts and yellow wagtails are particularly vulnerable.
A third of South Africa’s farming income depends on irrigation. Disruptions in power supply put huge chunks of the country’s agricultural fortunes at risk.
Many of our rivers are overloaded with nutrients from fertiliser run off and wastewater. Algal blooms, fish kills and poor water follow. One solution? Nutrient offsetting.
New research finds that some common houseplants take in nutrients from outside the soil.
A slowdown in price rises, combined with the shift to less aggressive rate hikes, is good news for the minister’s budget initiatives on growth.
Pulses are important for many reasons. They are packed with nutrition, resilient and crucial for achieving food security in Africa.
Several batches of palm kernel product imported for dairy farms contained certain chemicals above a safe limit – and there’s an ethical quandary in supporting an industry linked with deforestation.
For now there is little hope of a peace deal, but back-channel agreements show that Ukraine and Russia are at least talking.
This crucial fertiliser component is mostly found in just five countries.
The ravages of climate change and hunger do not occur in isolation, but are part of the system we have built.
A key ingredient for a green future is currently derived from fossil fuels.
Algorithms can help determine what farm inputs and policies can boost food production.
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Professorial Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University
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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Outreach Fellow, Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), United Nations University; Technical University of Hamburg
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Executive Co-Director, Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), United Nations University; Technical University of Hamburg
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Professor of Earth System Science, UCL
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Agricultural Science, The University of Western Australia
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Professor, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
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Adjunct Professorial Research Fellow, Partner Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University
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Chief Research Advisor, Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures, University of Sheffield
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Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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Senior Researcher, Agricultural Research Council - Animal Production, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Professor - School of Agriculture and Food Science, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Chemistry, George Washington University
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Marie Curie Research Fellow, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol
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Senior Research Fellow and Science Director, Department of Agriculture and Food Systems, The University of Melbourne