Food & Nutrition Security – The Biosecurity, Health, Trade Nexus

13-14 December 2021, Canberra

Conference Program

SIR JOHN CRAWFORD MEMORIAL ADDRESS AND NETWORKING DINNER

Monday 13 December 2021
QT Canberra Hotel, Ballroom

Dr Agnes Kalibata, UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy to the
2021 Food Systems Summit.

The Vote of Thanks to Dr Kalibata will be presented by Fiona Simson GAICD, Chair, Commission for International Agricultural Research and President,
National Farmers’ Federation.

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CONFERENCE

Tuesday 14 December 2021
Food & Nutrition Security – The Biosecurity, Health, Trade Nexus
QT Canberra Hotel, Ballroom

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09.00   OPENING SESSION

Welcome and Chair: The Hon John Anderson AO, Chair, The Crawford Fund
Introduction to our
Keynote Listeners: Madaline Healey and Rebecca Cotton, RAID Network
Opening: Su McCluskey, Special Representative for Australian Agriculture and Member, Commission for International Agricultural Research

09.30   SESSION 1: MORNING KEYNOTE

Chair: Professor Wendy Umberger, President of the Policy Advisory Council, ACIAR

Threats to Global Food Systems from Biosecurity Issues
Professor Prabhu Pingali, Founding Director of the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition and Chair of the Governing Board of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics

09.55   MODERATED Q&A

10.15   SESSION 2: FUTURE PROOFING WITH ADVANCED AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND TOOLS

Chair: Dr T J Higgins, Honorary Fellow, CSIRO Food and Agriculture and 2021 Crawford Fund Medal Winner 

Overview: Dr Rob Horsch, Advisor, Global Commission on Adaptation at World Resources Institute

Three Rapid-Fire Case Studies:

10.55   MODERATED Q&A SESSION 2 SPEAKERS

11.15   MORNING TEA

11.55   SESSION 3: PRIVATE SECTOR KEYNOTE

Chair: Andrew Egan, Assistant Secretary, Climate Change and Sustainability Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

View from the Private Sector – Trust and Purpose
Rob Kaan, Managing Director for Australia, New Zealand, Japan & Korea, Corteva Agriscience

12.20   MODERATED Q&A OF PRIVATE SECTOR SPEAKER

12.40   LUNCH

14.00   SESSION 4: CHANGING AND INCREASING BIOSECURITY RISKS TO FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY

Chair: Dr Robyn Cleland, Chief Environmental Biosecurity Officer, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment

Overview: Professor Andrew Robinson, Managing Director, CEBRA, The University of Melbourne

Three Rapid-Fire Case Studies:

14.40   MODERATED Q&A SESSION 4 SPEAKERS

15.00   AFTERNOON TEA

15.30   SESSION 5: UNPACKING THE NEXUS IN A CHANGING WORLD – THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BIOSECURITY, TRADE, HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT

Chair: Cathie Warburton, Interim Managing Director, Grains Research and Development Corporation

Overview: Nicola Hinder PSM, First Assistant Secretary, Exports and Veterinary Services, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment (DAWE)

Three Rapid Fire Case Studies:

16.10   MODERATED Q&A OF SESSION 5 SPEAKERS

16.30   CONFERENCE SYNTHESIS

Dr Helen Scott-Orr AM, Crawford Fund NSW Committee Coordinator and inaugural Commonwealth of Australia Inspector General of Biosecurity

16.45   THANKS AND CLOSING

Dr Colin Chartres, CEO, Crawford Fund