This report published in August 2009 by Australia's CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) estimates the amount of greenhouse gases that can be stored or mitigated by changes in rural land use in Queensland and more broadly, Australia. Key finding 1: With committed research and policy efforts, a large amount of carbon could be stored or greenhouse gases abated in Australia's rural lands and this could significantly offset our emissions over the next 40 years.

IFPRI (the International Food Policy Research Institute) have published a very useful series of briefing documents on what they think needs to form part of any Copenhagen deal with respect to agricultural mitigation and adaptation. Their basic argument is that agriculture is both part of the problem and of the solution, and the briefing documents look both at the technological and institutional challenges that need to be overcome.

This report from Christian Aid argues that the debate on biofuels needs to focus not on whether some biofuels can deliver or are better than others, but instead on the policy model that is pushing biofuels, which it argues is fundamentally flawed.

Researchers at the University of Nevada have developed a new process for producing biodiesel from commercial feather meal. The process is described in their paper published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Kondamudi N, Strull J, Misra M and Mohapatra S. (2009). A Green Process for Producing Biodiesel from Feather Meal. Agric. Food Chem., 2009, 57 (14), pp 6163 - 6166.

Burke M B, Lobell D B, Guarino L (2009). Shifts in African crop climates by 2050, and the implications for crop improvement and genetic resources conservation. Global Environmental Change, Volume 19, Issue 3, Pages 317-325.