Biodiversity – it’s hundreds of thousands of species and diversity within populations of each species and the diversity of biocoenoses, that is, at every level – from genes to ecosystems, there is diversity. This phenomenon has long been interested in people. First, out of mere curiosity, and then consciously and often for practical purposes a person is studying their living environment. This process is not complete, since each century challenges and changing ways of knowing the composition and structure of the biosphere. They solved the full range of biological sciences.

The main standards body for the country is an umbrella body which also covers New Zealand. Known, therefore, as Food Standards Australia New Zealand, or FSANZ, it has a wide range of responsibilities. These include vital tasks such as making sure that Australian food is safe to eat, and operating recalls in cases where there are doubts about a product’s safety. This body is also the one which carries out research in the area of food and nutrition.

The Food Regulation Secretariat sits above the previous body, and develops the standards which FSANZ implements. It aims to provide a link between those such as farmers who actually produce Australian food in the first place, the country’s food processing industry, and consumers themselves. It is supported by the the Australian Native Food Industry company, which deals with indigenous foodstuffs, or what is often called bush tucker.

Because of Australia’s unique and fragile environment, the country takes the subject of keeping out potentially contaminating foods extremely seriously. The Australian Quarantine & Inspection Service has a broad remit, and anyone who has visited the country will appreciate that it does not do things by halves when it comes to cracking down on unauthorized food imports. Much the same level of surveillance applies to exports.

Finally, there are some other organizations and departments which concentrate on the scientific aspect of Australian food development. These include CSIRO Gene Technology, which considers how best to bring genetically modified foods to market. Associated with this part of the industry is the GMO Record, which makes sure that Australians themselves are kept informed about progress in this area.

From a scientific point of view, the rate of climate change – the distance by which to move over the surface of the planet each year so that during a year average temperature condition remained unchanged. This rate is measured in kilometers per year, and according to current estimates, the rate of climate change is about 0.42 kilometers per year.

For forests located at higher elevations, the backlog of climate change on the average is 0.42 degrees, and for the forests of lowlands and plains – 1.29 degrees. Namely, the plants growing up in the mountains 3.1 times faster addapt to climate changes than the plants that are growin in lowlands.

Sadly, the favorable conditions have ceased to exist. Over the years, the world’s population has grown expansively and this has put pressure on mother nature to provide more and more on her part. The effect of this strain between the needs of the mass population and what mother nature is able to comfortably provide has resulted to bigger problems namely climate change.

Today, newer methods of farming are being employed and some of these methods are not particularly friendly to the environment and have ended up depleting the ozone layer over the many years they have been in use. Since farming methods affect the climate patterns, the result of a depleted ozone layer is unpredictable weather patterns which in the recent past has led to droughts and floods of inexplicable proportions.

It is now more than ever that we should begin to learn from what mother nature is trying to tell us. It is never too late to change our farming methods for our sake as well as for the generations to come.