David Mckinna shared lessons from meat industry in lifting farm gate prices and potential lessons for horticulture. “Service market - Restaurants account for about 40% of value, but often completely overlooked in Hort, which focuses solely on retail/wholesale market” #HORTCON22
Marie Piccone, Manbulloo, highlights the importance of sustainability and addressing climate change and biodiversity threats for her business. Looking after the environment “must be front and centre of our priorities” as an industry. #hortcon22
Alistair McArthur, EY Australia - #Climate Change & #governance (modern slavery) are main challenges for Hort sector to meet #ESG expectations of investors & requirements of regulators. #biodiversity & new payment for ecosystem services scheme huge Hort opportunity. #hortcon22
@MurrayWatt top 3 short-term priorities for agriculture/Hort sector are to address labour shortages, bio-security, & cost of inputs. For the longer-term, #Australia needs to improve value addition (500 million from reconstruction fund for Ag) & address climate change. #hortcon22
Great meeting yesterday with @DOSTphl delegation led by Usec Guevara & #UQ VC Prof. Terry. Many exciting areas to build R&D & education ties, spanning the nexus between coral restoration, environment, mining & agriculture. Thanks @ACIARAustralia for facilitating visit. @UQ_News
The IRRI Genebank🧬 is the world’s biggest collection of rice 🌾genetic diversity in the world.
Read more about the importance of seed banks here @BBC_Future: https://t.co/EJCxCiPo7R
And thank you, @ollyfrith, for sharing! Our partners in the project - @CDUni's @RIELresearch, NT DITT, @QUT, Pudakul, Olive Vale & @MyeraGroup - are doing a terrific job & #IndigenousPeoples across Northern #Australia & beyond stand to benefit👩🔬🌾😋🌏💚
Did you know @FutureFoodCRC is supporting NT in #Australia to commercialise native rice as a high value, gourmet health food? This would be a great experience to share with the global Ag research 4 development community. Thanks @afsnsw for sharing. @irri@ACIARAustralia@CGIAR
@afsnsw address @CoopResearchAus Collaborate Innovate Conference on the need to strengthen Australia’s food processing industry. Australia leads in ag commodity exports, but can also be a leader in food processing. Federal Govt. Needs to provide framework for this & support SMEs!
@Melissa4Durack addresses @CoopResearchAus Collaborate Innovate Conference on the critical role of the CRC programme as a vehicle for commercialisation of world leading Australian research.
@VickiTreadell addresses the collaborate innovate conference delegates at Old Parliament House on the need to strengthen science & innovation base & diversify our partnerships. Britain will invest £22 Bln in research by 2025. Britain & Aus FTA includes innovation chapter
@Melissa4Durack opens the Collaborate Innovate - Part 2 Conference in #Canberra. Australia excels in research, but needs to do more to translate and commercialise research outcomes - AUD 2 billion is allocated in the new budget to address this gap. @CoopResearchAus
Want to see the scale of our @CIMMYT global wheat improvement activities in Cd. Obregón? Check out this view of the sea of green at Campo Experimental Norman E. Borlaug captured by our partners @PIEAES and created by @silviarico
The consequences of War in Ukraine will have many knock on effects. Since 2008, @FAO & UN member countries have worked together to share market info & coordinate trade policies to avert price hikes. Now this war threatens a new global food security crisis https://t.co/h4nfOtBr70
Do you have experience working in international ag for development, or in areas relating to climate change, #FLW, genebanks, nutrition, #GenderInAg & more?
Our #NextGenAg4D project wants to hear from you!
👉 https://t.co/i6k3QFT6Ng
@irri@AlisonRBentley@CIMMYT@IWMI_@ICARDA
Please check out our new piece (@BOleSander & Reiner Wassmann) on how asia’s rice producers can help limit global warming and deliver a just climate transition for 144 million smallholder farmers @Diplomat_APAC https://t.co/gTFm4o5W7e