2024 Conference Program
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SIR JOHN CRAWFORD MEMORIAL ADDRESS AND NETWORKING DINNER
Monday 12 August 2024, 6:00pm-9:00pm, QT Hotel Ballroom
Dr Line Gordon, Director, Stockholm Resilience Centre and Professor in sustainable food systems at Stockholm University.
“Building Resilience in an Interdependent Patchwork Earth.”
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CONFERENCE
Tuesday 13 August 2024, The Great Hall, Parliament House
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09.00 OPENING SESSION
The Hon John Anderson AC, FTSE Chair, The Crawford Fund
Ministerial Opening
09.30 SESSION 1: KEYNOTE – TRANSFORMATIVE INTERNATIONAL
AGRICULTURAL R&D: THE ROAD TO FUTURE SUCCESS
Chair: Professor Wendy Umberger, Chief Executive Officer, ACIAR
Dr Ismahane Elouafi, Executive Managing Director, CGIAR
09.55 MODERATED Q&A
10.10 SESSION 2: CONSTRUCTING EFFECTIVE, HIGH-QUALITY RESEARCH
PARTNERSHIPS
Overview: Professor Hampus Eriksson, Senior Scientist, WorldFish and Professor at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS) at the University of Wollongong
10.30 Three case studies:
Ms Annastasia Kawi, Senior Technical Officer at PNG National Agriculture and Quarantine Inspection Authority, and Patrick Nai, DAFF Torres Strait Biosecurity Officer
Dr Wahida Maghraby, Agriculture Policy Analyst, Indonesian Center for Agriculture Socio Economics and Policy Studies, Ministry of Agriculture and former Agricultural Attaché to the European Union
Dr Uday Nidumolu, Research Team Leader, Resilience and Adaptation, Sustainability Programme, Agriculture & Food, CSIRO
11.00 MODERATED Q&A
11.20 MORNING TEA
11.55 SESSION 3: TAILORING R&D TO DELIVER LOCAL ON-GROUND
OUTCOMES
Short presentations and interactive panel discussion with:
Mr Mark Vurobaravu, Deputy Director, Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vanuatu
Dr Tran Thu Ha, Team Leader – Low Emission & Inclusive Agriculture, SNV
Madonna Thomson, Aboriginal Biocultural Knowledge Holder and Practitioner
Hussein Tadicha Wario, Director, Centre for Research & Development in Drylands, Kenya
12.40 MODERATED Q&A
13.00 LUNCH
14.00 SESSION 4: RE-THINKING INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERSHIPS AND
CAPACITY BUILDING TO SUPPORT TRANSFORMATIONAL IMPACTS OF R&D
Overview: Shaun Coffey, Director, Capacity Building, Crawford Fund
14.20 Three case studies:
Adjunct Associate Professor Seeseei Molimau Samasoni, Researcher, the Scientific Research Organisation of Samoa
Dr Muhammad Azeem Ali Shah, International Researcher – Water Governance Institutions, International Water Management Institute
Jessica Fearnley, Facilitator, RAID Network, Crawford Fund, Australia Volunteer Program and Vietnam National University of Agriculture Project
14.50 MODERATED Q&A
15.05 AFTERNOON TEA
15.45 SESSION 5: ACHIEVING TRANSFORMATIONAL OUTCOMES
Moderator: The Hon John Anderson AC, Chair, The Crawford Fund
Dr Ismahane Elouafi, Executive Managing Director, CGIAR
Dr Line Gordon, Sir John Crawford Address Presenter
Karen Mapusua, Director, Land Resources Division, The Pacific Community
Melissa Conley-Tyler, Honorary Fellow, Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne
16.15 MODERATED Q&A
16.30 SUMMING UP AND THE WAY FORWARD
Professor Stephen Bartos, Chief Executive Officer, The Crawford Fund
16.40 CLOSE