Dr Mark Thomas: researching soil-landscape processes, soil survey and digital soil mapping

Dr Mark Thomas’ primary research area includes land resource assessment with an emphasis on quantitative land evaluation methods.

Dr Mark Farrell: researching the interactions of biochar and organic wastes with soils

Dr Mark Farrell’s primary research areas include interactions between organic wastes, biochars and soils, availability of heavy metals, and the competition in the rhizosphere for key nutrients between plants and soil microbes.

Assessing greenhouse gas emissions from beef and sheep enterprises

CSIRO research is examining how much greenhouse gas is produced by beef and sheep enterprises and the potential for offsetting these emissions on the farm.

Fixing food security with forage legumes

One of Indonesia’s poorest provinces faces dire food security issues, but forage legumes could provide a surprising solution.

Assessing landscape systems and trends for agricultural sustainability

The Sustainable Agriculture Flagship is developing innovative assessment techniques to measure, monitor and predict the condition of Australian agricultural and forestry landscapes to increase productivity and reduce carbon emissions.

Land Monitor: mapping soil salinity for better land management

CSIRO scientists have developed a technique using satellite maps to estimate the present and future extent of salinity in south Western Australia.

Developing a sustainable plantation-based wood supply in Indonesia and Vietnam

Over the last two decades, CSIRO has worked with research agencies, wood-growing and wood-processing industries, and rural communities in Indonesia and Vietnam to develop a sustainable plantation resource based on tropical Acacia species.

Dr Geoff Downes: measuring and modelling wood variability

Dr Geoff Downes has a background in tree biology and wood quality. He leads a range of projects to better understand and measure wood variation.

CSIRO and food production: securing our food future

CSIRO is delivering science to improve food production systems and food quality in Australia and internationally.

Opinion: some food for thought on food security

For many of us, the current focus on food security may have come out of the blue. However as we pause to reflect on World Food Day, there are significant challenges to be faced as a nation if we are to have a reliable and affordable supply of food in the future – and we are to live in a world where others have sufficient food for healthy and active lives.

Frequently asked questions about the impact of floods on agriculture and food

This page provides information about the impacts of the flooding on agriculture, including soils, production, supply, farm infrastructure and livelihoods.

Food security explained: issues for Australia and our role in the global challenge

Issues for Australia and our role in the global challenge.

Farming systems

Finding better ways to manage agricultural systems and lands so that food and fibre production can be sustained in balance with environmental and socioeconomic outcomes.

Dr Enli Wang: modelling agricultural systems and hydrology

Dr Enli Wang's research areas include physiologically based crop modelling, productivity and environmental impacts of agricultural systems, water and nutrient use efficiencies, hydrological modelling, and climate impact assessment.

Ms Estelle Gaillard: understanding societal responses to global environmental changes

Ms Estelle Gaillard's focus is on the social dimensions of climate change mitigation and adaptation, working on projects including the Zero Emission Home and Adaptive Primary Industries, Enterprises and Communities.

Dr Elizabeth Schmidt: researching soil carbon

Dr Elizabeth Schmidt is a Research Scientist in the Carbon and Nutrient Cycling Research group within CSIRO Land and Water's Managing Australia's Soil and Landscape Assets theme.

Beyond two degrees warming

Greater and more widespread impacts are expected when global warming passes 2 °C above pre-Industrial levels, so understanding how the risk changes at that point can help inform negotiations on emission reduction targets.

Ms Claire Wright: ICP Technical Officer

Ms Wright's interests lie in the use of inductively coupled plasma (ICP) based analytical methods, adapted for specific purposes to determine the concentrations and isotopic ratios of metals and metalloids in environmentally-based samples.

Climate Change: Science and Solutions for Australia

Climate Change: Science and Solutions for Australia provides the latest scientific knowledge on a series of climate change topics relevant to Australia and the world. It draws on peer-reviewed literature contributed to by thousands of researchers. Available as a free eBook.

Carbon and rural land use: key findings

This report brings together much of the latest research on emission reduction and offsets in rural land, including the potential of forests as carbon sinks.

CABALA: a model for predicting forest growth

CABALA is used to estimate the tree growth and carbon sequestration in plantations and managed forests.

Greenhouse Gas Abatement and Carbon Storage in Land Use Systems

The Sustainable Agriculture Flagship is developing science, technology, measurement and management systems to help reduce net greenhouse gas emissions from Australian lands while increasing the storage of new carbon in our lands.

Dr Brian Keating: Director, CSIRO Sustainable Agriculture Flagship

Dr Brian Keating is an expert in farming systems science with broad experience researching sustainable land management.

Investigating Biochar: from Source to Sink

The Sustainable Agriculture Flagship is leading national collaborative research analysing the properties and potential of a variety of biochars to improve soil health and sequester carbon.

Biochar for agronomic improvement and greenhouse gas mitigation

CSIRO is leading collaborative research across Australia to analyse the properties and potential of a variety of biochars to improve soil health and sequester carbon. (6 pages)