University Events Calendar
February, 2012

Date/Time: Monday, 13 February 2012, 8:30 am to 7:30 pm
Location: National Wine Centre, Adelaide
Cost: See website for details
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Reframing the Agenda - Food Security to 2050
A National Forum on Food Security

Unique challenges and opportunities face our domestic and global food systems - particularly as global demand for food and resource-based products grows and diversifies in the face of limited natural resources and slowdowns in agricultural Research and Development investment.

Our capacity to respond to food systems concerns - both short-run and long-run - will have great social significance in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. The development of new relationships in the research community will enable us to capture more of the opportunities available and will ensure Australia has a major role to play in equitably feeding and nourishing the 9 billion people estimated to be in the world by 2050.

This forum will serve as a catalyst to inform and influence researchers and research decision-makers on how to foster the development of cross-disciplinary Research, Development & Extension which will shape economic decision-makers and policy-makers dealing with challenges facing local and international food systems and how to design effective policy responses.

For more information and registration:
http://economics.adelaide.edu.au/events/food-security/

Contact: Dr Lisa Topelmann-Weder (email), Project Manager, Global Food Systems 2050 Research Coalition, School of Economics & Waite Research Institute, The University of Adelaide, Business: +61 8 8313 0776 (Mondays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays)