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Food, soil, water & agriculture

About

Food and water security are two of the biggest global challenges of our time. Our research focuses on providing reliable scientific, sociological and institutional knowledge to inform sustainable food and water policies and improve the management, use and conservation of natural resources.

Groups

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It's crucial that we as a society communicate the huge importance of this system, celebrate its majestic wonder - and continue efforts to preserve and encourage river stewardship for future generations.

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Projects

Are you a student looking for an outstanding PhD opportunity? Are you an industry professional who is open to undertaking a PhD project while retaining employment and salary benefits? 

Student intake

Open for PhD students

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Help advance our understanding of a vital ecosystem service at the Fenner School of Environment & Society at The Australian National University (ANU) in collaboration with the CSIRO Future Science Platform Environomics (FSPE).

Student intake

Open for PhD students

People

  • Dr Joanne Bennett
  • Dr Francisco Encinas-Viso

Honours / Masters(Adv) project available analysing regional drought resilience plans in collaboration with CSIRO and the Australian Government.

Student intake

Open for Honours, Masters students

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Sustainable Farms draws upon research programs across the Australian National University, focussing on three key research topics: Healthy Farms, Healthy Farmers, and Healthy Profits.

People

  • Dr Michelle Young

The project aims to find means of meeting the African government’s plans for greater food security while using limited water resources more sustainably.

This research looks at the identifying the costs and benefits of different trade off options so that governments in particular, and societies more broadly, can take better informed decisions around water use in China & SE Asia.

People

  • David Dumaresq

Members

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Honorary Senior Lecturer

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Honorary Associate Professor

Honorary Associate Professor

Honorary Senior Lecturer

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Emeritus Professor

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Emeritus Professor

Academic staff

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Professor

Associate Professor

Articles

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Agriculture experts from The Australian National University (ANU) have teamed up with government bodies and NGOs in sub-Saharan Africa to improve irrigation schemes and boost crop production. The researchers' work is improving food security, reducing water waste and lifting people out of poverty.

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Business and governments across the world are embedding carbon abatement considerations into their trade negotiations and relationships. As an industry dependent on exporting, Australian agriculture must be ready to adjust to a more carbon-conscious trading future.

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Tuvalu. ‘In the western Pacific, sea levels rose faster than anywhere else in the world between 1993 and 2015, and by 2050 they will continue to rise by an additional 0.10–0.25 metres.’

A new IPCC report makes clear what island nations have long warned. Their survival depends on urgent collective action.

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Australia is experiencing widespread, rapid climate change not seen for thousands of years and may warm by 4℃ or more this century, according to a highly anticipated report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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A lead author of latest IPCC report says humans ‘still in the control cabin of the planet’ but there is no limit to the damage possible.

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We are offering two exciting opportunities for interdisciplinary researchers with skills in mathematical or computational modelling to undertake PhD programs at the Fenner School of Environment & Society at the ANU.

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