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RAID Network – ACT event

Are you a student or young professional based in Canberra and curious about relevant opportunities to apply your background to the intersection of agriculture, natural resource management, policy and international development?

If this is you, join us at Symposium (Kambri, ANU) for an evening of engaging presentations, Q&A time, and access to emerging and established leaders in these fields.

Speakers

Joseph Vile
Assistant Director – Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Interest areas: international agricultural partnerships, water management, bilateral negotiations

Fiona Lynn 
Director – Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Agricultural Development and Food Security Section
Interest areas: climate resilience, agricultural development and diplomacy

Manita Raut
PhD Candidate and John Allwright Fellow – Australian National University
Interest areas: irrigation technology adoption, water management in Nepal, feminisation of agriculture

Agenda

  • Welcome/introduction of proceedings
  • Panel session
    • Highlighting a diversity of career stages, disciplines, and pathways into agricultural research for development
  • Interactive Q&A
  • Facilitated networking session
  • Close and thank you
  • Attendees to join SIDER drinks for continued networking opps

Events

Want to meet other RAIDers and expand your knowledge of agricultural research for development? Search for an event near you!

Events

Want to meet other RAIDers and expand your knowledge of agricultural research for development? Search for an event near you!

Weathering the ‘perfect storm’, 2019 Crawford Conference

Addressing the Agriculture, Energy, Water, Climate Change Nexus

12-13 August 2019, Canberra

The Crawford Fund’s annual conference is a highlight of Australia’s agricultural development and food security calendar. For almost 30 years we have drawn significant focus to issues worthy of global and Australian attention, and this August we continue that long proud tradition.

“The Perfect Storm” was a term coined by Sir John Beddington, the Sir John Crawford memorial address presenter when UK Chief Scientist, to describe his prediction that by 2030, food shortages, scarce water and insufficient energy resources would threaten to unleash public unrest, cross-border conflicts and mass migration as people fled from the worst-affected regions.

Now, 10 years after Sir John’s dire prediction, our 2019 conference will examine the available evidence as to whether the ‘storm’ is still on track to happen, or whether scientific, engineering and agricultural innovation and what is happening in the farmer’s field has lessened or delayed its impact.

The conference will open on 12 August with the Australian Nobel Prize Laureate, Prof Emerita Elizabeth H. Blackburn, PhD making her first address during a visit to Australia at our specially styled networking dinner. In the 2019 Sir John Crawford Memorial Address she will discuss how her lifetime’s research journey led to her broader interests in optimizing human health, including nutrition in an address titled “From Looking Down the Microscope to Looking Out the Window.”

On 13 August, our full-day event will again be in Parliament House, Canberra, and we are pleased that after nearly three decades we are able to move the event to the Great Hall.

See more here