Food & Nutrition Security – The Biosecurity, Health, Trade Nexus
13-14 December 2021, Canberra
Conference Program
SIR JOHN CRAWFORD MEMORIAL ADDRESS AND NETWORKING DINNER
Monday 13 December 2021
QT Canberra Hotel, Ballroom
Dr Agnes Kalibata, UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy to the
2021 Food Systems Summit.
The Vote of Thanks to Dr Kalibata will be presented by Fiona Simson GAICD, Chair, Commission for International Agricultural Research and President,
National Farmers’ Federation.
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CONFERENCE
Tuesday 14 December 2021
Food & Nutrition Security – The Biosecurity, Health, Trade Nexus
QT Canberra Hotel, Ballroom
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09.00 OPENING SESSION
Welcome and Chair: The Hon John Anderson AO, Chair, The Crawford Fund
Introduction to our Keynote Listeners: Madaline Healey and Rebecca Cotton, RAID Network
Opening: Su McCluskey, Special Representative for Australian Agriculture and Member, Commission for International Agricultural Research
09.30 SESSION 1: MORNING KEYNOTE
Chair: Professor Wendy Umberger, President of the Policy Advisory Council, ACIAR
Threats to Global Food Systems from Biosecurity Issues
Professor Prabhu Pingali, Founding Director of the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition and Chair of the Governing Board of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
09.55 MODERATED Q&A
10.15 SESSION 2: FUTURE PROOFING WITH ADVANCED AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND TOOLS
Chair: Dr T J Higgins, Honorary Fellow, CSIRO Food and Agriculture and 2021 Crawford Fund Medal Winner
Overview: Dr Rob Horsch, Advisor, Global Commission on Adaptation at World Resources Institute
Three Rapid-Fire Case Studies:
- Advanced monitoring techniques – Professor Pablo Zarco-Tejada, Remote Sensing & Precision Agriculture, School of Agriculture and Food & Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, The University of Melbourne
- In the field with Loop – mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) – Dr Stacey Lynch, Senior Research Scientist, Virology Microbiology, Microbial Sciences, Pests and Diseases, Agriculture Victoria Research, Centre for AgriBioscience
- Diagnosis in a fish farmer’s backpack – Dr Andrew Barnes, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Queensland
10.55 MODERATED Q&A SESSION 2 SPEAKERS
11.15 MORNING TEA
11.55 SESSION 3: PRIVATE SECTOR KEYNOTE
Chair: Andrew Egan, Assistant Secretary, Climate Change and Sustainability Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
View from the Private Sector – Trust and Purpose
Rob Kaan, Managing Director for Australia, New Zealand, Japan & Korea, Corteva Agriscience
12.20 MODERATED Q&A OF PRIVATE SECTOR SPEAKER
12.40 LUNCH
14.00 SESSION 4: CHANGING AND INCREASING BIOSECURITY RISKS TO FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY
Chair: Dr Robyn Cleland, Chief Environmental Biosecurity Officer, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment
Overview: Professor Andrew Robinson, Managing Director, CEBRA, The University of Melbourne
Three Rapid-Fire Case Studies:
- The race to save bananas – Irene Kernot, Research Program Manager for Horticulture, ACIAR
- The battle against Fall Army Worm – Chris Dale, International Biosecurity Specialist, Agriculture and Food Security Section, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- African Swine Fever – Beyond the numbers – Tarni Cooper, SpatialEpiLab, University of Queensland and former Crawford Fund awardee, volunteer and RAID Member
14.40 MODERATED Q&A SESSION 4 SPEAKERS
15.00 AFTERNOON TEA
15.30 SESSION 5: UNPACKING THE NEXUS IN A CHANGING WORLD – THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BIOSECURITY, TRADE, HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT
Chair: Cathie Warburton, Interim Managing Director, Grains Research and Development Corporation
Overview: Nicola Hinder PSM, First Assistant Secretary, Exports and Veterinary Services, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment (DAWE)
Three Rapid Fire Case Studies:
- Global Collaboration: International Plant Sentinel Network – David Gale, Manager, Data Management and Surveillance Communities, Plant Health Australia and former Crawford Fund awardee
- From Field to the Lab – Dr Jay Anderson, Senior Research Fellow at Southern Cross University and former Crawford Fund scholar, volunteer and mentor
- Curbing Antimicrobial Resistance – Dr Walter Okelo, Research Scientist, CSIRO Land and Water
16.10 MODERATED Q&A OF SESSION 5 SPEAKERS
16.30 CONFERENCE SYNTHESIS
Dr Helen Scott-Orr AM, Crawford Fund NSW Committee Coordinator and inaugural Commonwealth of Australia Inspector General of Biosecurity
16.45 THANKS AND CLOSING
Dr Colin Chartres, CEO, Crawford Fund