In the News
April 2, 2019
The Crawford Fund has so many fantastic ‘good news’ stories to tell about agricultural research and developments around food and nutrition security. In addition to our social media campaign and our ‘seeing is believing’ journalist visits that generate this news, our ‘traditional’ media campaign brings national attention to important developments and issues in agriculture for development and what they mean for Australia.
You can look back on media coverage we generated in 2023 here, and below are listed some links to more recent media items:
Annastasia Kawi and Patrick Nai on biosecurity efforts between Australia and PNG (28m34s through to 34m46s)
ABC Pacific Beat – 20 November 2024
Interview with Glenn Denning (1:38-1:54)
ABC Brisbane – 6 November 2024
Glenn Denning wins UQ Alumnus of the Year Award
4BC Brisbane – 31 October 2024
Animal feed derived from flies set to be trialed across the Pacific
ABC Pacific Beat – 2 October 2024
Calls for Australia to better implement funds to the Pacific
ABC Pacific Beat – 26 August 2024
Meet Crawford Fund scholar, Birendra Kunwar, who grew up in Nepal and is now studying at CDU and spending a lot of time in mango plantations (starts 49m05s)
NT Country Hour – 27 August 2024
Dr Ismahane Elouafi – A mission to end global hunger (44m45s through to 54m)
Radio National – 24 August 2024
Insight from Africa: Why livestock farmers are key to the future (and must be supported)
Beef Central – 16 August 2024
Bush Tucker can help world food sustainability
The Wire – 14 August 2024
Cattle are more than a commodity in Africa
The Wire – 17 July 2024
Over-productive coconut trees pose safety risk in North Queensland as ‘senile’ plantations frustrate Pacific farmers
ABC Rural – 15 July 2024
Keeping the world in aquatic foods with Dr Essam Yassin Mohammed, WorldFish Director General (48m42s through to 53m53s)
ABC Victorian Country Hour – 14 June 2024
Deep inside the permafrost lies a doomsday vault holding the seeds of humanity
ABC News – 13 June 2024
Blue Economy Must Benefit Fishing Communities in Global South, Says WorldFish Chief
IPS News Agency – 10 June 2024
Wild species offer traits to improve chickpea
Grain Central – 27 May 2024
ICRISAT and IRRI on heatwave impact (37m30s through to 43m45s)
ABC Victorian Country Hour – 14 May 2024
Food security impacts of current Avian Flu Outbreak (17m45s- 24m15s)
ABC Victorian Country Hour – 10 April 2024
Everything starts with the seed
Cosmos, Issue 102 – March 2024 (Posted with permission from the publisher)
Eminent plant pathologist still working after six decades
The Land – 19 March 2024
People on the Move in the grain industry
Grain Central – 18 March 2024
Increasing food security concerns – Brett Worthington and Michael Baum from ICARDA (44.30-54.07)
ABC Country Breakfast – 16 March 2024
International work critical to Australia’s wheat industry, says Dr Trethowan
The Land – 10 March 2024
Alvaro Lario (IFAD) discusses challenges in international agriculture
ABC Landline – 10 March 2024
A pest plant in Australia, farmers in Morocco desperately seeking prickly pear salvation
ABC News – 7 March 2024
With pollinator numbers declining, researchers are getting creative to feed the planet
ABC News – 7 March 2024
Lemerle takes Australia’s hard-earned lessons to Laos
The Land – 6 March 2024
UN’s IFAD visits Solomon Islands and Australia amid growing international food crisis
ABC News – 5 March 2024
Building trust with farmers central to scientist’s vital international work
The Land – 27 February 2024
Learn how Dr Schouten is keeping bee diseases at bay in the Pacific
The Land – 21 February 2024
Buying Time, Sir John Crawford’s legacy to international agricultural research
ABC Victorian Country Hour – 21 February 2024
Australia’s role to play in Asia’s food security evolution
Farm Online – 18 February 2024
Food Systems Can Achieve More
The Wire (national community radio) – 14 February 2024
Australia is well placed to help address long-running food security concerns in neighbouring countries
Radio National Country Breakfast – 10 February 2024
The Real Cost of Food
ACE Radio Network, Country Today – 9 February 2024
Johnathan Rushton (keynote speaker at AARES) interview (5:35)
ABC Victoria – 9 February 2024
AARES looks at Australia’s role in Asia’s food system
Grain Central – 6 February 2024
Meet the Aussie vet dedicated to saving chickens and giving villages food security
The Land – 4 February 2024
Fibre-rich, with fewer farts: how the underrated mung bean could improve food security (and post-bean bloat)
The Guardian – 3 February 2024
Time in Taiwan elevates Aussie’s mungbean research
Good Fruit and Vegetables – 19 January 2024
2023
Lack of career pathways and long-term contracts driving a shortage of soil specialists
The Land – 29 November 2023
Crawford Fund Forum highlights need for more investment in research and development
The Land – 28 November 2023
Overseas inspiration for Lydia the researcher from agricultural fund
The Advocate – 28 November 2023
Professor Lee Baumgartner earns the inaugural NSW Crawford Fund Medal
The Land – 26 November 2023
Interview with Dr Nerida Donovan (at 11m25s to 18m20s)
ABC Country Hour – 24 November 2023
Interview with Prof Lee Baumgartner and Dr Helen Scott-Orr (at 12m24s – 20m.45s)
ABC Country Hour – 23 November 2023
How to secure food for 10 billion people
ABC Radio National Breakfast Program – 6 September 2023
Farmers encouraged to diversify to aid food security
National Commercial Rural News Program – 6 September 2023
Climate crisis could contribute to a global food shortage by 2050, US special envoy on food security warns
The Guardian – 5 September 2023
Soil health key to global food security, US expert says
The Canberra Times – 5 September 2023
Food security will be at the forefront at a major conference in Canberra
ABC News – 4 September 2023
Australians help Laotian rice farmers replace hand weeding with machinery
ABC Rural – 08 July 2023
Matt Champness about Laos
ABC Rural, Victoria Country Hour – 06 July 2023
AIA-SA elects new committee
Stock Journal – 22 June 2023
The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) is looking to embark on some ambitious projects in Timor-Leste
NT Country Hour – 6 June 2023
Report in Farm Online
Farm Online – 12 May 2023
Protected cropping projects in the Pacific uplifting the lives of farmers and their communities
ABC Rural – 11 May 2023
Overseas ag research a rare ‘win-win’ – and why more is needed
Beef Central – 24 April 2023
Pacific Island Countries To Develop Advanced Warning System for Tuna Migration
Inter Press Service News Agency – 21 April 2023
Crisis resilience ‘critical’ to stem rising hunger
SciDevNet – 19 April 2023
Calls for more of Australia’s $4.5 billion international aid budget to be funnelled into agricultural research
Countryman – 14 April 2023
Wild Fijian coffee, agritourism embraces ‘paddock-to-plate’ concept while supporting women
ABC Rural – 2 April 2023
Rural Press Club event to explore role of aid-funded ag research
Grain Central – 29 March 2023
Fijian beekeepers keen to export high-quality honey, but face pollen shortage
ABC Rural – 20 March 2023
Women, youth are ‘unseen leaders’ in rural Indonesia
SciDevNet – 24 February 2023
Seaweed researchers find bright future for underwater crop
ABC Rural – 27 Jan 2023
2022
Investing in global agri-R&D also ‘benefits donor countries’
SciDevNet – 9 December 2022
Crawford Fund board members John Anderson and Joel Fitzgibbon lobby for international agriculture research
Farm Online – 2 December 2022
Benefits of investing more in foreign aid
National Commercial Rural News – 1 December 2022
Dr Jenny Hanks tells us about her work in overseas countries providing ag aid
ABC Radio Victorian Country Hour – 1 December 2022
Former MPs plea for more funds for farmers in developing countries
The Weekly Times – 30 November 2022
Investment in Agricultural Research a ‘No Brainer’
Radio Release (national pickup), 30 November 2022
International foreign aid investment needs to increase for agricultural development
The Wire (national community radio) – 30 November 2022
Former ministers call for more investment in ag aid
Grain Central, 29 November 2022
Earth observations to shore up food and water security
Radio 2GB – 11 November 2022
New ways to sustainably manage African water resources
The Wire – 9 November 2022
Australian security and climate change
ABC Radio National – 27 October 2022
Food security in the Pacific and Australia’s future food
ABC Radio National, Big Ideas – 19 October 2022
Food security in a precarious world
ABC Radio National, Future Tense – 25 September 2022
Earth observations to shore up food and water security
National Commercial Rural News – 11 Nov 2022
Australian security and climate change
ABC Radio National – 27 October 2022
Food security in the Pacific and Australia’s future food
ABC Radio National – 19 October 2022
Food security in a precarious world
ABC Radio National – 25 September 2022
Growing global food security concerns are in the spotlight
North Queensland Register – 26 August 2022
Growing global food security concerns are in the spotlight
The Land – 26 August 2022
Agricultural research and development investment fall a cause for concern
Queensland Country Life – 26 August 2022
Growing global food security concerns are in the spotlight
Rural Press – 25 August 2022
Tradition and science helping pacific blue-green economies
The Wire – August 2022
Food production outlook dims with R+D decline
The Wire – August 2022
R&D supercharging food production
The Wire – August 2022
RN Country Breakfast
ABC Radio National – Dr Philip Pardey – 20 August 2022
R&D in agriculture and food declining, experts say
SciDevNet – 19 August 2022
South Australian Country Hour
ABC Rural Radio – Dr Philip Pardey (8.05- 13.38) – 16 August 2022
Radio Australia Wantok – Regina Bi Nukundj
ABC Pacific – 15 August 2022
Joshua Noinery, A G.I.F.T for PNG Fisheries (4m50s to 5m39s)
National Rural News – 27 July 2022
Professor Tim Reeves AM, a lifestime in Agriculture
ABC Victorian Country Hour – 14 June 2022
The seed savers
ABC Radio National – 28 February 2022
2021
Working together critical on biosecurity says Anderson
Farm Online – 26 December 2021
Health and agriculture monoliths should share lessons on biosecurity
Grain Central – 17 December 2021
Managing stresses the key to better wheat varieties for all
The Land – 01 November 2021
Aussie drives global research that underpins Australian wheat industry
Grain Central – 13 October 2021
Millet and sorghum represent opportunities for farmers and consumers
Farm Online – 03 August 2021
Queensland Country Hour
ABC Country Hour (from 45m19s into program) – 30 July 2021
A forgotten grain, back in the spotlight
National Commercial Rural News – 30 July 2021
Seaweed quadruple fish immunity
Online SciMex – 28 April 2021
Ex-soldier takes new path towards seaweed science
USC Media Release – 21 April 2021
How farmers can reduce greenhouse gas while increasing yield
Farm Online – 30 March 2021
Aus farmers leading way in reducing emissions on farm: Crawford Fund
Beef Central – 23 March 2021
Crawford Fund in podcasts
FarmOnline – 12 March 2021
2020
Scientists race to find wild, ancient bananas to save the popular fruit from climate change
ABC Rural, NT Country Hour – 26 November 2020
Pacific warned of food crisis
Radio New Zealand – 13 November 2020
Pandemic food crisis threatens Indo-Pacific region, new report warns
Farm Online and Australian Community Media Network – 11 November 2020
Study warns COVID-19 pandemic could spark food crisis in Indo-Pacific (@10m 44s)
ABC Radio Australia (Pacific Beat) – 11 November 2020
Improving soil improves diets in the Pacific (@33m 10s)
ABC Radio Australia (Pacific Beat) – 27 October 2020
From the ground up: soil science improves Pacific diets
Pacific Island Times – 13 October 2020
African cattle: Scientists identify new genetic traits
Queensland Country Life – 29 September 2020
Can school gardens help alleviate the economic impact of COVID-19 in the Pacific?
Devex – 28 September 2020
DFAT funded PNG school gardens
ABC Radio, NT – 11 September 2020
DFAT funded PNG school gardens
ABC Radio Australia – 9 September 2020
Vale Robin Graham
Farm Online – 5 September 2020
National Science week goes online
ABC Radio, NSW – 18 August 2020
National Science Week – National Rural News
Radio/podcast, National Rural News – 18 August 2020
Aussie scientists tackle food security
The Land – 17 August 2020
Ag hits National Science Week
Grains Central – 13 August 2020
Crawford Fund support for Agrieducate essay comp
The Land – 9 August 2020
Funding for new One Health centre
ABC Radio, WA – 20 July 2020
Australia well placed for future viral pandemic preparedness
Devex – 13 July 2020
Coronavirus helps Australia fight African swine fever, but developing neighbours are being overwhelmed
ABC News – 7 July 2020
Australian agri-research can lead the way in virus prevention
Australian Financial Review – 9 June 2020
COVID-19: food, nutrition and the global poor
Devex – 17 April 2020
Australia foreign aid through agriculture research and development an untold success story
Farm Online – 10 March 2020
How beef cattle are unlocking SE Asia’s poverty trap
Queensland Country Life – 24 February 2020
Q&A: The impact on climate denial on food security
Devex – 15 January 2020
2019
The road to climate-smart agriculture: Will the new agricultural revolution pass Australia by?
Asia & The Pacific Policy Society – 10 December 2019
Young Aussie ag scientists can tackle world’s food challenges
Stock Journal – 14 October 2019
Addressing climate change from a finance and liability lens
Devex – 16 August 2019
Sustainable food and the behavior change challenge
Devex – 16 August 2019
Experts tackle food security problem in the face of climate change
Radio National Breakfast – 13 August
Australia’s food security scholars recognised
The Land – 30 July 2019
Project providing improved nutritional properties for staple crops a winner
Farm Online – 18 July 2019
Pre-breeding targets three of the world’s most damaging crop pests and pathogens
Groundcover – 05 July 2019
New durum germplasm could lift the climatic resilience of Australian cultivars
Groundcover – 20 June 2019
Big benefits in conservation ag in North Africa
Farm Online – 29 May 2019
Australian wheat sector protects against hessian fly and Sunn pest
Farm Online – 6 May 2019
Breeding better durum in Morocco
Farm Online – 6 May 2019
Young scientists learn the ropes
Farm Online – 4 May 2019
Moroccan farm manager keeps the place ticking over
Farm Online – 2 May 2019
Moroccan trip a valuable opportunity for Australian wheat breeders
Farm Online – 2 May 2019
Looking to exploit our similarities to develop trade with Morocco
Farm Online – 30 April 2019
Helping to find a genetic needle in a haystack
Farm Online – 29 April 2019
Wheat serious business in Morocco
Farm Online – 26 April 2019
Rebuilding genetic diversity in Morocco
Queensland Country Life – 24 April 2019
Making the most of every drop of water in low rainfall zones
Farm Online – 21 April 2019
Morocco goes with the grain
The Land – 20 March 2019
Tim Fischer to step down from international Crop Trust
Grain Central – 20 March 2019
3 takeaways for impact in agriculture and development
Devex – 28 February 2019
Misinformation in agriculture contributing to tech block
The Weekly Times – 20 February 2019
Seed bank to preserve native plants
ABC Saturday AM, ABC TV Weekend National News – 16 February 2019
FMD detected – the value of biosecurity
ABC National News – 15 February 2019
One Hour live broadcast from AARES conference
ABC Rural Country Hour – 13 February 2019
Fake news thwarts livestock gene technology
Farmonline and weekly papers – 13 February 2019
Don’t Swallow ‘Fake News’ on Food and Agriculture
National commercial radio coverage – 12-15 February 2019
Food conference urges action in remote communities
“The Wire” on National Community and Indigenous Radio – 12 February 2019
Urgent need for ‘drastic’ shift in diets
Farm Online and weekly papers – 11 February 2019
