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Women in Agricultural Research
Emma Mace discusses creating careers in agriculture
QAAFI’s Professor Emma Mace discusses the exciting STEM careers available in agriculture, and the challenge of attracting a diverse range of students from different science disciplines to meet the challenge of producing more food from less resources to feed and nourish the world. Professor Mace’s work at the Hermitage Research Centre at Warwick is being underwritten by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which also has a very clear focus on the role of women in agriculture – having recently described poverty and access to food as issues that disproportionately hit women hardest.
QAAFI Diversity and Inclusion news
- A comprehensive map of the genome of a native lime species that is resistant to a devastating citrus disease could be the key to preventing that disease entering Australia.
- 21 April 2023We all know that as mangoes ripen, they get more yellow, or even orange. This is a similar phenomenon for most, if not all, mangoes. But why does the flesh of some mango varieties only reach a pale lemon colour, while others produce a dark orange that would not be astray in a ripe pumpkin?
- A simple test to select nitrogen-efficient cattle is the outcome of years of research at The University of Queensland.
- 28 March 2023Dr Eric Dinglasan got his first taste for sugarcane as a plant pathologist inspecting imported cane in post-entry quarantine in the Philippines. Many of the varieties came from Sugar Research Australia (SRA).
- Eleven researchers from The University of Queensland (UQ) have been awarded more than $3.1 million through the 2022 Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellowships.
- An introduced weed that already costs Australian grain growers more than $90 million a year is becoming an even bigger threat according to University of Queensland-led research.
- An Australian plant used by First Nations communities as food, animal fodder and medicine, could be used as a nutritious alternative to salt, according to University of Queensland research.
- Changing the diet of pregnant sows could be the key to easing heat stress and its resultant drop in productivity in the Australian pork industry.
- Extensive mathematical modelling and analysis of Australia’s wheat and sorghum crops has for the first time quantified the potential of modifying photosynthesis to boost yield.