Doing Well by Doing Good in Queensland

As part of our Doing Well by Doing Good Campaign,  the Queensland Committees held a Rural Press Club of Queensland breakfast event in Brisbane on Thursday, April 20 2023 at the Tattersalls Club, Queen Street Brisbane.

A panel involving three leading Queensland agricultural researchers and thinkers explored the mutual benefits of investment and partnerships in international agricultural research with a particular focus closer to home, given Queensland’s own strengths and challenges in agriculture.

Their presentations were backed by decades of experience and global impact, as well as two recent “Doing Well by Doing Good” reports by the Crawford Fund, highlighting real and lasting benefits. With a conservative ballpark benefit cost ratio of 10:1 backed by international analyses, and many less quantifiable social, environmental, and diplomatic benefits in-country, to Australia and to the researchers involved, the Fund argues it’s a no-brainer to grow the aid funding of agriculture for development from the current level of around 2.5% of the aid budget.

You can read a summary of the event prepared by Rural Press Club president James Nason “Overseas ag research a rare ‘win-win’ – and why more is needed”.