Understanding the finer linkages between food systems and biodiversity conservation is important in our search for sustainability. Here’s...

Efforts to feed our growing population with safe, nutritious and sustainable food are failing. Over 2 billion people are food insecure,...

Our planet is getting hotter and hungrier. Extreme weather events are having catastrophic impacts on human lives and our food systems are...

During a recent session of the 31st Meeting of the CITES Animals Committee, Malaysia were denied permission to increase their export...

Zoonosis – a natural barrier to disease transmission Disease crossover in our food and livestock systems is a growing threat. Reptiles...

Until now, reptile farming has been predominantly pro-poor. For the most part it remains a cottage industry made up of small, family-run...

Historically, farming reptiles was not easy. The differences between cold-blooded reptiles and warm-blooded livestock is vast. Reptiles...

​ Commercially farmed reptiles exhibit the full suite of essential agricultural life history traits. They grow fast, reach maturity early...

Reptile meat is a cultural norm for nearly half the world’s population. The practice is mostly confined to the tropics where an abundance...

Global livestock production systems reflect a European colonial legacy. Worldwide, conventional farmed species are skewed towards the...

Global food production systems are at a cross roads. The natural environment on which our food supplies depend is approaching a tipping...