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Title:
Using enabling technologies to meet demands for food security and sustainability
Series:
Technical Reports
Series Issue:
13.08 November 2013
Publication Date:
21/11/2013
Description:
Overview This report examines how biotechnology, nanotechnology and information and communications technology could be used to increase crop production and its sustainability in Australia. The report was commissioned by the Department of Agriculture under the Commonwealth Government's National Enabling Technologies Strategy. Key issues * The report finds that genetic modification and modern plant breeding techniques have the potential to increase the ability of crops to resist pests and diseases, resist competition from weeds, cope with suboptimal soil or environmental conditions and use nutrients more efficiently. * Crops with these improved characteristics will require fewer external inputs, such as insecticides, herbicides and fertilisers, and this will increase the sustainability of farming systems and the environment. * Nanotechnology in the agriculture sector has potential applications in pesticide (insecticide, herbicides) delivery, fertiliser delivery and enhancing crop growth. The technology could also be used in biosensing and remediation of agricultural soils. * However, most nanotechnology applications in agriculture are still in the research and development phase. * Until relatively recently, information and communications technology has not been specifically applied to agriculture. Since the high accuracy signal of the Global Positioning System became available to the general public in 2000, the application of precision agriculture technologies has increased. * Precision agriculture offers benefits particularly in the areas of more efficient fertiliser and pesticide application in cropping. It also offers sustainability and financial benefits.
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ABARES : Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences : Department of Agriculture
Author:
STOUTJESDIJK Peter

TEN HAVE José
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Other constraints: ATTRIBUTION: This publication (and any material sourced from it) should be attributed as: Stoutjesdijk, P & ten Have, J 2013, Using enabling technologies to meet demands for food security and sustainability, ABARES technical report, Canberra, November. CC BY 3.0
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ISBN 978-1-74323-142-5

ISSN 189-3128
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