'Highlights' is the newsletter of The Crawford Fund. From 2010 Highlights will be produced three times per year, in March/April, July/August and Nov/Dec. Contributions from readers are welcome. Please contact Cathy Reade, Director, Public Affairs and Communication and also, the editor, if you would like to raise an issue for consideration.
The Newsletter provides articles on issues on international agrciultural research as well as the latest updates on the Crawford Fund Public Awareness, Training and other activities. Our first edition each year provides details of our upcoming annual conference, and the final edition each year provides a report on the event. If you are not currently receiving our free newsletter and would like to do so, please let us know at crawford@crawfordfund.org with your email (preferred due to cost savings) or your postal address.
Most recent issues can be downloaded below. Some issues are still available in hard copy on request.
Read about the 2012 Crawford Fund Conference, the development of the Australian International Food Security Centre and a number of public awareness and training activities we have been involved with.
Read about emerging developments in food security and agricultural research, a summary of our 2011 Conference: the supermarket revolution and our public awareness and training activities. We also give you an update on our "a wider canvass for international agricultural research" project.
In the August newsletter, read about the Crawford Fund's new research study on emerging trends in world food security and implications for international agricultural research; the Aid Review; the Fund's Brisbane conference, and our recent public awareness and training activities.
In our April newsletter, read of new hope in reducing extreme poverty; climate change challenges for agriculture in the tropics; R&D solutions in the wake of recent natural disasters, and the latest news on what we are up to with the Crawford Fund's public awareness and training programs.
Read a synopsis of the 2010 Conference, the announcement of the new Crawford Fund chair, a call for a Tasmanian Coordinator, our public awareness and training activities and much more...
In this issue please find an article on Australian Plant Genetic Resource Collections and Food Security, by Dr Tony Gregson AM, an update on the 2010 Crawford Fund Conference. There is also a report from an Australian Youth Ambassador who worked in Ghana and our usual features on our Training program and our Public Awareness Activities.
Announcing the 2010 Crawford Fund Conference – Biodiversity and World Food Security: Nourishing the Planet and its People;Wheat Warriors Fight War on Hunger; Can Private Sector R&D Feed the Poor? A short synopsis of the 2009 Conference; The 2009 Sir John Crawford Memorial Lecture by The Hon Bob McMullan; Public Awareness Activities; Latest News on Our Training Programs; The CGIAR Embracing Change: The Spirit of Montpellier; 2010 Awards and Training Courses
