A new roadmap for reshaping our food systems
A new roadmap from Australia’s national science organisation, CSIRO, outlines ways to make our food systems more sustainable, productive and resilient.
A new roadmap from Australia’s national science organisation, CSIRO, outlines ways to make our food systems more sustainable, productive and resilient.
Recent research has found that shorter supply chains and localised food hubs are vital to food security in Australia’s regions.
The Australian Government’s fast-tracked review of supply chains and freight should include re-thinking road and rail transport, says FFS partner NSW Farmers.
Our tropical fruits are vulnerable to climate change. Two Murdoch University researchers ask, ‘Can we make them resilient in time?’
FFS industry partner and leading grower-distributor Costa Group has released its Sustainability Report 2022, showing progress regarding water efficiency, GG emissions, energy use and production, waste, packaging and more.
This short film depicts the work of protected cropping experts at Western Sydney University’s Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment supporting India’s efforts to develop sustainable future food production solutions.
The first UN Food Systems Summit on 23 September, livestreamed across the world, engaged more than 51,000 people from 193 countries and led to nearly 300 pledges to act. Watch all the sessions on demand.
As warmer night temperatures shrink strawberry size, farmers are losing out – but scientists are working on potential solutions.
Australia’s National Farmers’ Federation has pledged to cut the agriculture sector’s greenhouse gas emissions to zero within 20 years, with Chief Executive Tony Mahar citing the risk of adopting ‘a passive approach’ to combating climate change.
The supply-chain disruption precipitated by the pandemic shutdown may provide the motivation needed to reinvigorate urban agriculture, contends protected cropping expert Oula Ghannoum.