Food & Environment
Food & Environment
Australia is rich in both ecology and natural resources. The Institute of Public Affairs Food and Environment Unit seeks to determine our national and international role in feeding the world and protecting the environment. The IPA examines environmental and agricultural policies across the countries, with particular emphasis on climate change policy, water, agricultural biotechnology, resource management, and market-based solutions to environmental challenges.
Sub-topics of Food & Environment
News
Sustainable Development is Not Working
The forest fires currently ravaging our land, while not avoidable, have been made far worse by a perverted approach to sustainable development. The...
Roos Tax Poor Farmers
Farmers are being accused of shortsightedness for failing to prepare for the present drought. Yet few urban observers understand that the current...
Can't See the Trees for Law
Farmer Jim is thinking of felling one of the 20,000 trees on his property for fence posts, but he has a problem---he has used up his 30-tree (0.15...
Greens' Policy Lacking Proper Scrutiny
Of course, the concerns people have about environmental degradation are both understandable and justified. Many of our most difficult problems...
Climate Case not Proved
Some 60,000 delegates from all over the world are now converging on Johannesburg to take part in a grand environment summit. Australia's...
Power Without Reason
The Kyoto climate control agreement is back in the news. Under this agreement, countries tentatively agreed to limit emissions of greenhouse gases...
Can development be environmentally sustainable?
Sustainable development as a term came into its own with the 1987 publication of the Brundtland Report. Brundtland herself was a Norwegian...
Making the Market Work for the Environment
As nation we face many environmental challenges, arguably the greatest is to get markets working for the environment. Environmental policy has long...
It's Not Easy Beating Greens
A leftist vegetarian academic who once belonged to Greenpeace writes about the state of the world's environment. The outcome would seem...
Labor's Anti-Science Green Deal Betrays Knowledge Nation
Political parties have to change with the times. Sometimes they go too far. For example, in the time that my former Labor colleague Barry Jones was...
