Increasing population and consumption are placing unprecedented demands on agriculture and natural resources across the planet. Today, approximately a billion people are chronically malnourished while our agricultural systems are concurrently degrading land, water, biodiversity and climate on a...

In a little over a decade, the global population is expected to reach 8 billion. The task of feeding this growing population will become harder with rising natural resource constraints, declining or stagnant crop productivity, more frequent extreme weather events, and climate change. These...

Who feeds the world? Two billion small-scale farmers who in addition to feeding themselves also produce surpluses for local markets — these are the food producers for a global population. Domestic markets along with the food consumed by the producers’ families constitute more than 70% of the...

Sustainable food production depends on well functioning agro-biological ecosystems: a diversity of living organisms—the biodiversity—plays a critical role in the function of these ecosystems, particularly in the way in which biotic and abiotic processes shape agricultural productivity and...

The production of food from marine and freshwaters is undergoing a profound revolution—from hunting to farming or from fishing to aquaculture. Fishing and aquaculture exploit and alter the biodiversity on which they are based, each in different but convergent ways. Fishing harvests a much...

Australia's isolation from other continents over millions of years led to the evolution of many species that exist nowhere else, so called ‘endemic’ species. Of the ten megadiverse countries in the world, we are the only one that is labelled as ‘developed’ so have a global leadership...

Mining companies’ main business is to focus on their core expertise — best-practice mining development and operation. Resolute Mining Limited has over two decades of expertise, and is one of the largest gold producers listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. In Africa we mine, or have mined,...

Humans have been trading seafood and seafood products since time immemorial. This trade has commonly crossed national boundaries, but the scale of trade has increased markedly in the past twenty years. By and large the distilled view of nations is that trade is good and there has been...

Recent sharp declines in numerous fish species and other ocean wildlife have forced serious reevaluation of old assumptions about the capacity of marine systems to sustain large-scale taking, especially when coupled with drastic habitat destruction, by-catch and food-web disruptions. Achieving...

Before I start my presentation on the very important subject of illegal fishing, I do want to congratulate Dr Meryl Williams on her appointment to the Chair of the Board of Management of the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research and President of its Policy Advisory Council. I...