Conference Media

We welcome media representatives attending and reporting on the Crawford Fund annual conference. Interviews can be prearranged.

Media materials will be posted here as they become available.

The hashtag for our 2023 conference is #23cfconf and you can also follow @CrawfordFund

Media Alert

Managing risk to build resilience for food security

Media Releases

Here are the media materials for the event, embargoed to 4 September 2023:

Agroforestry solutions for the global polycrisis of climate, biodiversity and food – Extensive research and action underway on carbon credits
Dr Éliane Ubalijoro
CEO of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and World Agroforestry (ICRAF)

Getting agriculture ‘back to basics’ in a riskier world
Dr Cary Fowler
U.S. Special Envoy for Global Food Security, Office of Global Food Security

More than climate change responses needed to reduce risk for farmers
Emeritus Professor Kym Anderson AC
Crawford Fund Medalist

Lessons for sustainable intensification in action
Prof Jamie Pittock
Fenner School of Environment & Society, ANU

Neglected and underutilised crops to fill supply and nutrition gaps
Prof Kadambot Siddique
The University of Western Australia, Hackett Professor of Agriculture Chair and Director of the UWA Institute of Agriculture

Innovative fertilisers for the future
Dr Roya Khalil
Director of Research and Development, Incitec Pivot Fertilisers

Boosting resilience in supply chains beyond a ‘just in time’ approach
Ben Fargher
Environmental Markets Lead, Cargill Asia Pacific

Food system solutions for better nutrition in the face of climate change
Dr Warren T K Lee
Senior Nutrition & Food Systems Officer, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

A not so pesky fly: sorting waste, food security, jobs and the environment
Dr Fathiya Mbarak Khamis
Senior Scientist, the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe)

For media inquiries, please contact:

Ms Cathy Reade
Director of Outreach and Conference Director
The Crawford Fund
Mobile: + 61 413 575 934
Email: [email protected]