2024 Crawford Fund Conference proceedings now available!

January 13, 2025

Our 2024 conference “Food and Nutrition Security: Transformative Partnerships, Local Leadership and Co-Design” was chosen as a topic that is front of mind for those involved in food and nutrition security. 

We are pleased to have the full proceedings of the Crawford Fund’s 2024 Annual Conference now available. You will also find individual papers listed under each of the presenters in our Speakers and Chairs section of the conference website.

These proceedings provide an enduring record of the keynote speeches, overview presentations and case studies, and includes all conference papers, and the Sir John Crawford Address.

The speakers’ presentations from the day were made available shortly after the event, as well as videos of the Sir John Crawford Address by Dr Line Gordon, Director, Stockholm Resilience Centre and Professor in sustainable food systems at Stockholm University, and the Keynote Address Transformative International Agricultural R&D: The Road to Future Success by Dr Ismahane Elouafi, Executive Managing Director of CGIAR.

For those who were not able to attend, the aim of our 2024 conference was to emphasise the importance of partnerships, consultation, and collaboration for codesigning and delivering high quality agricultural research for development projects and capacity building programs. We strongly believe that such projects can have more impact and be better integrated into local cultures and structures including families, communities, policies and strategies.

The conference proceedings have been compiled and edited by Ann Milligan. We thank her for her diligence and professionalism in delivering the final volume.

Once again, these proceedings will be made available through AgEcon Search, a free-to-user Web site that contains the full text of working papers, conference papers and journal articles; and through CAB Direct, a source of reference in the applied life sciences. These portals allow us further opportunity to spread the reach of the interesting and informative presentations from this important food security event.

Our 2025 Annual Conference will be held on 11 and 12 August. Stay tuned for further details of what will be another very special event bringing a focus on food and nutrition security.