Many changes swirling around us will influence food security and reshape our food systems. We will see cascading impacts from geopolitical shocks, climate and weather changes, biodiversity losses, demographic and technological changes.

Here is your chance to gain a better understanding of the challenges we are facing, and to how things must change, so that we seize on opportunities rather than waiting to be overwhelmed by events beyond our control.

The conference program addresses some important questions:

How should we change our food production systems?
Is our reliance on international trading still a good idea?
Are our laws and incentives still fit for purpose?
What difference will demographic and technological changes make?
Should we be changing how we deal with poverty and health issues?

Discussions will be led by expert speakers with the aim of finding a new framework for the future. Food producers, agriculturalists, logistics experts, demographers, sociologists, researchers and government agencies will all be able to contribute.

Speakers include

Professor Julianne Schultz – Griffith University

How we see ourselves and how this effects food issues

Professor Andrew Campbell – Triple Helix Consulting

Reviving land and sea care

Dr Mark Stafford Smith – CSIRO

Impacts of accelerating changes in the natural world

Professor Simone Warner – Agriculture Victoria

Better biosecurity efforts are critical

Professor Euan Ritchie – Deakin University

New environmental law – does it fall short?

Aunty Mary Graham – University of Queensland

Land, law and relationships

Dr Jessica Danaher – RMIT University

Our food plate is changing

Dr Courtney Quinn – University of Tasmania and CSIRO

Tipping points – challenges and opportunities

A special accommodation rate has been secured at Crowne Plaza Carlton adjacent to the conference venue. Click FACING THE FUTURE WE Booking Link to book.

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