Himalayan villages are growing food in the forests, a traditional model that can fight both land clearing and world hunger.
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Top contributors
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Director, Griffith Climate Action Beacon, Griffith University
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Research Fellow and Associate Director of the Institute for Sustainable Food, University of Sheffield
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Director, ANU Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
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Lecturer, Tilburg University
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Senior Research Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Soils and Global Change, University of Aberdeen
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Director, IA Watson Research Centre, Narrabri Plant Breeding Institute, University of Sydney
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Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Agriculture, CSIRO
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Research Scientist Climate Smart Agriculture, CSIRO
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Senior Research Fellow & Lecturer, School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England
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Sessional Lecturer, UNSW