CSIRO Livestock Industries is supporting Australia's livestock and allied industries to become stronger global competitors in the 21st century.

CSIRO's Sustainable Agriculture Flagship aims to reduce the carbon footprint of Australia’s land use whilst achieving the productivity gains needed for prosperous agricultural and forest industries and global food security.

Australian agriculture needs to adapt now to climate change according to a CSIRO book launched today entitled: Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: Preparing Australian Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry for the Future.

CSIRO, Queensland Primary Industries and Fisheries (QPIF) and The University of Queensland have joined forces to develop world-leading agriculture modelling technologies to help farmers improve crop risk management and profitability.

CSIRO is developing biological control techniques for the management of some of Australia’s main insect pests. This will help reduce the amount of pesticide used and provide control at a landscape level.

CSIRO Entomology's research is helping to manage the increasing threat from invasive species and the benefits to agriculture from ecosystem services.

CSIRO research on catchment and aquatic systems focuses on sustaining and improving the health of our aquatic systems, by understanding how these systems are affected by land use change and climate change.

With water conservation such an important issue, it’s surprising that less than one in four commercial irrigators in Australia actually measure the amount of water in their soil. (9:13)

This 39-minute video captures a seminar given by CSIRO's Biodiversity Research Director, Dr Mark Lonsdale as part of the United Nations’ International Day for Biological Diversity 2009. Watch the video below, or download the accompanying PowerPoint slides. (51 pages)

Dr Kim Alexander is a social scientist working with the CSIRO AusAID Alliance. Her research includes understanding agricultural change and global water availability and sanitation.

Dr Alan Andersen is a Chief Research Scientist with CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems in Darwin, where he studies ant community ecology, the use of ants and other invertebrates as indicators of ecosystem health, and fire ecology and management in tropical savannas.

CSIRO scientists are providing solutions to a predicted shortage of phosphorous which is an essential element for agricultural production and therefore, availability of food worldwide.

Water and oil are often depicted as the two limiting resources on which our future depends. However a less well-known resource, phosphorous, is just as important to ensuring our agricultural productivity. According to scientists, we are quickly running out of the 'cheap' sources of phosphorus that we use presently to make fertilisers.

A summary of the key findings from the Darbas Lawrence study of soil water and farming systems in 2008.

Soil organic carbon is a complex and varied mixture of materials and makes up a small but vital part of all soils.