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A Periodic Table of Food for better health globally

Food for better health globally

成人大片 researchers are contributing to a global effort to quantify the makeup of the world鈥檚 food supply, enabling data-driven solutions to human and planetary health challenges such as biodiversity loss, climate change and malnutrition.

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PODCAST: You can't build an ego when caring for a stream

Listen to this latest EcoFuturist podcast as Professor Andy Lowe talks to Bruce Pascoe from Black Duck Foods about traditional indigenous land management and native food production.

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Climate change threatens to cause 鈥榮ynchronised harvest failures鈥 across the globe, with implications for Australia鈥檚 food听security

New research shows scientists have听听to agriculture and global food production. Blind spots in climate models meant 鈥渉igh-impact but deeply-uncertain hazards鈥 were ignored. But now that the threat of 鈥渟ynchronised harvest failures鈥 has been revealed, we cannot ignore the prospect of global famine.

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3MT People's Choice and Student's Choice Winner!

Congratulations to Isobel Hume, who was both the People's Choice and also Student's Choice awards winner in the听听蹿颈苍补濒!

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Upcoming Three Minute Thesis final

Good luck to听听PhD Candidate听Isobel Hume, who is a Three Minute Thesis (3MT) finalist and will present her research on 'Urban Food Security' at tomorrow's 3MT Final!

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Come and see us at the Royal Adelaide Show!

The current climate crisis makes us aware of the need to be resilient to ensure self-sustainment of the global economy and supply chain, particularly our food supply chain.

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Understanding global trade networks could help us spread the load of environmental contamination

Rice travels a long way to get to your dinner plate. It may have been harvested from a paddy field in Vietnam, processed and packaged in a factory in Bangladesh, and transported via freight ship to eventually land in your local supermarket.

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Viticulturists one step closer to advanced computer vision

Vineyard owners can鈥檛 have their eyes everywhere, all the time. That鈥檚 why ground-based vision systems are becoming tricks of the trade.

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Grape Growers Adapting to Climate Shifts Early

A recently published article听emphasises the importance of strong cooperative approaches to managing our water resources.

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