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The agriculture and fossil fuel industries are the biggest sources of methane emissions in Australia. Here’s how signing the pledge may affect them.
Farmers face a multitude of challenges in future. Crops and livestock are not only on the line, but also the mental health of rural communities.
Pork producers are challenging a California law that animal welfare advocates call the most important measure for farm animal protection in decades.
The emission reduction targets outlined for Canadian fertilizer use will not lead to food shortages and food insecurity.
Improving the diets of livestock in Africa provides a rapid pathway to increasing nutrition for people.
Indonesia’s foot-and-mouth outbreak shouldn’t come as a surprise. It’s been decades in the making – just the latest consequence of biosecurity shortcomings in the region.
Healthier and more sustainable food could be made cheaper as meat and dairy becomes more expensive.
Effective biosecurity involves more than just what happens at the airport. And it doesn’t come cheap.
Many wildlife species face an uncertain future due to recurring, severe drought.
Nutrient pollution fouls lakes and bays with algae, killing fish and threatening public health. Progress curbing it has been slow, mainly because of farm pollution.
Foot and mouth disease hasn’t been on our doorstep since the 1980s. Keeping it out of Australia is a new national priority.
If the UK government is to cut methane emissions by 30% before 2030, it needs fewer cows and more crops.
Feeding insects instead of grain to animals is an inexpensive, sustainable way to increase the world food supply. An animal scientist explains what’s involved in developing insect feed for cattle.
The ongoing humanitarian crisis raises serious questions about future food and water security in the Horn of Africa.
About 7.7 million Somalis need emergency aid right now.
Farmers are contending with huge spikes in fertilizer prices. The Biden administration is paying US companies to boost synthetic fertilizer production, but there are other, more sustainable options.
Children are taught to value the lives of other species less, according to a new study.
Instead of evicting pastoralists from their ancestral land, more effort must be made to create new opportunities for them.
A new ‘protein roadmap’ produced by CSIRO reveals foods set to fill fridges by 2030 as health, environmental and ethical concerns push consumers away from meat.
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Specialist, CGIAR
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Professor of Veterinary Infectious Diseases, University of Liverpool and International Livestock Research Institute, Kenya, University of Liverpool
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Adjunct Professor in Animal Welfare, Curtin University
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Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Fellow, Zoological Society of London
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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Associate professor, UNSW
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Senior Researcher and Statistician, University of Hohenheim
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Barrister, Victorian Bar and Honorary Fellow, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
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Assistant Professor of Applied Environmental Health , University of Maryland
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Senior lecturer, UNSW
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Professor, Dept of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Guelph
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Chief Research Scientist, Food Systems and the Environment, CSIRO
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Postdoctoral research fellow, The University of Melbourne