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We need to transform what type of food we eat, how we grow food, and how we use the land if we are to combat dangerous levels of climate change. These are the findings of the recently released Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Climate Change and Land. For the report, more […]

The Crop Livestock Enterprise Model (CLEM) has recently been released under the aegis of the APSIM Initiative. CLEM is a biophysical model that enables researchers in developed and emerging-economy countries to examine the effects at the farm scale of different management practices, and to assess the risk and variability of practices over the medium (10+ […]

One of the biggest challenges to reducing hunger and undernutrition around the world is to produce foods that provide not only enough calories but also make enough necessary nutrients widely available. New research finds that, over the next 30 years, climate change and increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) could significantly reduce the availability of critical nutrients […]

Not eating enough fruits and vegetables is a major nutritional problem. Poor diet is the primary reason many people suffer some form of malnutrition, which has contributed to the proliferation of non-communicable diseases – now the main cause of premature mortality globally. A series of recent reports (The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate […]

On 19 June 2019, Aus4Innovation program launched an 18 month pilot capacity building program for public research organisations and government commercialisation institutions. In partnership with the National Agency for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Development (NATEC), participants from the Viet Nam National University of Agriculture (VNUA), the Viet Nam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), the […]

What age are we in? It feels like every conference I attend these days is about industry 4.0. For those of you who have been living under a stone for the last few years, industry 4.0 is predicted as the next industrial revolution, characterised by the deployment of cyber-physical systems, the internet of things and […]

We talked to Anne Rae, Principal Research Scientist and Group Leader, and Andrew Ash, Chief Research Scientist and previous Director of the Climate Adaptation Flagship, about their careers with CSIRO, and their advice for early-mid career researchers. They told us about some highlights and challenges from their careers, and we’ve picked out some pearls of […]

In a study recently published in Nature Communications, CSIRO contributed to an international effort with multiple other research organisations to identify key determinants of global land-use projections. Projections of land-use play an important role in exploring future developments and policy options for sustainable development, climate change, biodiversity, and food security. The researchers used a new […]

The LiveGAPS team have released a new app to compare nutrient production of livestock by farm size for Tanzania, Nigeria and Ethiopia. With this app, you can visualise the quantity of different nutrients, for example protein, that is produced by livestock from farms of different sizes. We find that small farms (<20 ha) produce the […]

Francesco Accatino and Joao Pedro Domingues from the National Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA) in France visited the CSIRO Global Food and Nutrition Security group in March 2019 for an INRA-CSIRO collaboration. Francesco is a Research Scientist whose research investigates trade-offs and synergies between ecosystem services. Joao Pedro is a Postdoctoral Researcher who investigates livestock […]