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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 […]

Globally, 800 million people are hungry, two billion suffer from micronutrient deficiencies, and two billion are overweight or obese. The structure of global food production, and diversity of food supply are key to debates on how food should be produced and are fundamental for the design of feasible responses to improve food production and agricultural […]

We are delighted that Mario Herrero has been elected as a new Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for his foundational contributions to the field of integrated assessment and systems analysis of agriculture, livestock systems and food and environmental security. Mario will join an existing Fellowship of over 1600 people who support the […]

Unpacking Knowledge Systems for sustainable development in East Africa: Practical perspectives from Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) is rising up the agenda in East Africa – and it is being embraced as a way to catalyse the development agenda and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). A number of low- and […]

We know that what we eat effects our health but something we probably think about less often is how it effects the planet. Research shows that poor diets can be bad for the environment as well as our waist lines. So how can you eat for a healthy body and world? Despite being essential, agriculture […]

The Livestock Data for Decisions community meets regularly to share expert knowledge, data, and innovations pertaining to livestock. The meetings provide a forum for discussion of approaches to improve livestock data and for future work plan development as well as an opportunity to update the community on working group progress. The Livestock Data for Decisions community is […]

Agriculture and livestock production are seen as a land intensive and environmentally harmful, but new research has looked into whether future alternatives could be both more environmentally friendly and healthier. Cattle fart and particularly burp methane (a potent greenhouse gas), and land is regularly cleared for grazing – both not good things. But the counter […]

New research shows that unless we act now in making vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds and pulses more available and affordable serious micronutrient deficiencies will persist globally along with continued undernutrition in the poorest regions of the world. An analysis of the trajectory of diets across the globe from now until 2050 has been recently published […]