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Farms on Sydney’s fringes supply 20% of the city’s food. That could drop by more than half if urban sprawl isn’t kept in check.
The world’s population is set to double by the end of the century. But there is only so much land available for food production.
That eating beef is environmentally costly is by now widely appreciated. But little has been done to curtail the amount of cattle farmed for meat consumption. To try and address this, my colleagues and…
John Blackwell, the new head of the British Veterinary Association, recently waded into the ritual slaughter debate by calling for kosher and halal meat preparation to be banned. With vets at European…
“The optimist”, wrote American fantasy fiction writer James Branch Cabell, “proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.” Reading about the global food…
Crop yields could be dramatically reduced due to climate change as soon as the 2030s. Researchers have found that with only…
Harvesting existing cropland more frequently could substantially increase global food production without clearing more land…
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Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Director of the Arrell Food Institute and Professor in the Dept. of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph
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Senior Lecturer in Food Systems, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Analyst, University of Pretoria
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Director, Agri-Food Analytics Lab, Professor in Food Distribution and Policy, Dalhousie University
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Senior Researcher on Environment and Health, University of Oxford
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PhD Candidate, School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania, and Senior Research Consultant, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Chief Research Scientist, Food Systems and the Environment, CSIRO
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Senior Lecturer in Plant Biochemistry, University of Westminster
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Professor of Food Policy, City, University of London
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Research Fellow, Tegemeo Institute, Egerton University
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Director, Food and Agriculture Institute, University of The Fraser Valley
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Professor, School of Divinity, History and Philosophy, University of Aberdeen
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO
