Reflections from the Agrifood 2011 – Simon Fielke talks about his first impressions
THANKS AND THOUGHTS FROM THE AGRI-FOOD RESEARCH NETWORK CONFERENCE 2011 Dear Jane, Stewart and fellow conference attendees, The 18th annual Agri-food research network conference which was held at ANU from the 5th to the 8th of December 2011 was the first of many I hope to attend. The theme for the conference was ‘sustainabilities, justice...
Food Security: We Need Different Experts in Charge
Article by Jane Dixon, featured in The Brisbane Link. Food security is about a basic human right, our right to nutritious, sustainably produced and affordable food. It has, however, become a tremendously complex problem with many of the stakeholders seeing the issues only from their own narrow perspectives. Here, Jane Dixon pleads for a more...
Food Security for the short or long term?
the following is a piece from the Agri-Food Research Network on food security and the government’s new National Food Policy Working Group In a context of the Queensland floods and cyclone and the floods in Victoria, many analysts have been asking questions about Australia’s food security. These severe weather events, which have destroyed the capacity...
Farms, mines and foreign ownership. A case for regulation in the national interest?
Opinion feature article written by Agri-Fooders, Michael Santhanam-Martin and Geoff Lawrence. Greens leader Bob Brown’s concern over acquisitions by China’s Shenhua Watermark Coal of farms on NSW’s Liverpool Plains is but the latest flurry in a gathering storm of controversy over mining developments on farmland. Whether it’s coal seam gas or coal, the question is whether...
