Patrick Aust
Why now is a good time to invest in reptiles
Efforts to feed our growing population with safe, nutritious and sustainable food are failing. Over 2 billion people are food insecure,...
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Patrick Aust
- Sep 28, 2021
- 3 min
Farming in the inferno: What dinosaurs can teach us about food security
Our planet is getting hotter and hungrier. Extreme weather events are having catastrophic impacts on human lives and our food systems are...
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Patrick Aust
- Jul 16, 2021
- 3 min
Why we keep getting it wrong when it comes to sustainable food systems and the reptile trade
During a recent session of the 31st Meeting of the CITES Animals Committee, Malaysia were denied permission to increase their export...
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Patrick Aust
- Dec 2, 2020
- 4 min
Reptiles in the context of global change
Zoonosis – a natural barrier to disease transmission Disease crossover in our food and livestock systems is a growing threat. Reptiles...
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Patrick Aust
- Dec 1, 2020
- 2 min
The sustainability of reptile farming
Until now, reptile farming has been predominantly pro-poor. For the most part it remains a cottage industry made up of small, family-run...
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Patrick Aust
- Dec 1, 2020
- 2 min
The story of reptile farming
Historically, farming reptiles was not easy. The differences between cold-blooded reptiles and warm-blooded livestock is vast. Reptiles...
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Patrick Aust
- Nov 26, 2020
- 2 min
The biology of reptiles it the agricultural context
Commercially farmed reptiles exhibit the full suite of essential agricultural life history traits. They grow fast, reach maturity early...
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Patrick Aust
- Nov 26, 2020
- 3 min
The rise of the reptiles
Reptile meat is a cultural norm for nearly half the world’s population. The practice is mostly confined to the tropics where an abundance...
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Patrick Aust
- Nov 26, 2020
- 1 min
Undervalued and overlooked
Global livestock production systems reflect a European colonial legacy. Worldwide, conventional farmed species are skewed towards the...
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Patrick Aust
- Nov 20, 2020
- 3 min
Our growing food security crisis
Global food production systems are at a cross roads. The natural environment on which our food supplies depend is approaching a tipping...
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