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GFAR researchers at the North-West Vietnam Research Symposium
The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) hosted the ‘North-West Vietnam Research Symposium’ in Hanoi last week. The symposium was attended by over 300 participants from Vietnamese and Australian institutions. The symposium was a showcase of ACIAR-funded research in north-west Vietnam. The north-west Vietnam region is mountainous, inhabited by communities of ethnic minorities, and […]
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A Second Warning to Humanity from The World’s Scientists
It is twenty-five years since the Union of Concerned Scientists and more than 1700 independent scientists issued the 1992 “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity”. The warning brought together evidence of human impact on the natural world and cautioned that fundamental changes were needed to prevent catastrophic consequences from the depletion and despoiling of the Earth’s […]
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