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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

People

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

How do you teach fieldwork when a class is online? The answer is found in a virtual field trip.

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On this episode of Democracy Sausage, researchers Rebecca Colvin and Jamie Pittock join Mark Kenny to discuss Australian attitudes to climate change, how they influence people’s voting patterns, and Australia’s increasingly severe weather events.

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Amid plans for salvage logging in some areas, there's a fight over whether areas that have been damaged by multiple natural disasters should be left alone altogether.

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The Australian environment has started a slow recovery from some of the toughest years on record, a new study has concluded.

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Improved weather conditions have pulled Australia’s environment out of its worst state on record, but recovery remains partial and precarious, new research reveals.

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The recent flooding in New South Wales is consistent with what we might expect as climate change continues.

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