Mr Doug Yuille from WWF's Sustainable Agriculture program, and former manager of Queensland Dept of Environment's reef protection project will lead a discussion on 'Reducing the impacts of Agriculture'.
In this seminar, former CSIRO Chief Research Scientist TJ Higgins discusses the challenges and opportunities of gene technology for the developing world with focus on global trends of GM crops and recent developments for food legumes in Africa and India.
Dr Laurence McCook will outline the synthesis of biophysical effects of dredging, as a resource for ongoing management, followed by an opportunity for discussion of the implications for developing policy on dredging.
Presented by Tira Foran, CSIRO Land and Water Flagship, Canberra. This talk will unpack and extend arguments offered in a paper published last September in World Development (Foran et al. 2014). Both “food security” and “innovation” are invoked frequently in policy discourse around agricultural development, with innovation seen as vital to achieving better food security outcomes.
Global fishing effort is unsustainable and “… leading inexorably to an impending crisis for global marine fisheries.” This seminar argues that the primary cause of this impending crisis is the failure of States to transparently and equitably distribute the ‘conservation burden’, and thereby enable the adoption of sufficiently strong measures to reduce overfishing to sustainable levels and remove overcapacity. Given current levels of overfishing, conservation measures are required that reduce fishing mortality.
The Energy Express seminar series is designed to provide a regular forum to present and discuss a range of energy-related topics and themes. The seminars are open events, and aim to bring together industry, government, and the broader UQ community including academics, researchers, students and alumni.
The coconut has provided staple nutrition on tropical coasts and island for millenia. It had spread far and wide long before Homo sapiens colonised tropical regions beyond Africa.
