Thinking about the future of food
Wednesday 6th December
3pm – 4.30pm (AEDT)
This webinar brings together several international experts on food to provide a range of ideas about the future of food from international, national and local perspectives. Each speed-presentation aims to be dynamic and thought provoking, we hope this will inform our understanding about food and seafood production.
Presentation 1: Brief introduction presented by Prof Chris Carter, Blue Economy CRC / IMAS / UTAS
Presentation 2: Exploring future nutrient needs presented by Dr Andrew Fletcher, Sustainable Nutrition Initiative – Riddet Institute
Presentation 3: Coping with complex seafood futures, one byte at a time presented by Dr Beth Fulton, CSIRO
Presentation 4: Future of fish supply under climate change presented by Prof Julia Blanchard, IMAS / UTAS
Presentation 5: Identifying management actions for a food-based approach to fisheries and aquaculture presented by Dr Anna Farmery, ANCORS, UOW
Presentation 6: Sustainably feeding our blue food presented by Dr Rich Cottrell, IMAS/UTAS
Presentation 7: Systems approach driven by theory of change applied to terrestrial systems presented by Prof Duncan Cameron, University of Manchester
Presentation 8: Centre for Food Safety and Innovation (CFSI) – future prospects in food-related research and development in Tasmania presented by Prof John Bowman, Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture / UTAS
Presentation 9: The age of advocacy presented by Julie Petty, Seafood Industry Australia
The webinar will be facilitated by Prof Chris Carter and presentations will be followed by Q&A.
PRESENTERS
Name: Dr Andrew Fletcher
Affiliation: Honorary Fellow·Sustainable Nutrition Initiative | Riddet Institute
Andrew is a Chemical Engineer with a PhD in process control and modelling. Andrew is a Honorary Fellow at the Riddet Institute and has been involved with SNi® since the outset. He is based at the Fonterra Research and Development Centre in Palmerston North and is involved in a range of research, management and strategy roles.
Name: Dr Beth Fulton
Affiliation: Senior Principal Research Scientist | CSIRO
Dr Beth Fulton is CSIRO’s research domain leader for integrated oceans stewardship and the blue economy. In shaping the strategic direction for CSIRO’s research in this area, she is building off more than 20 years of work developing various system modelling tools for looking at marine ecosystems, sustainability and climate adaptation. Beth is also an Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director at the Centre of Marine Socioecology, a centre focusing on working collaboratively to find transdisciplinary, equitable and sustainable solutions to the problems facing coasts and oceans.
Name: Professor Julia Blanchard
Affiliation: ARC Future Fellow | Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies & Centre for Marine Socioecology
Julia’s research areas are factors influencing the resilience of fish populations, marine communities and ecosystems (from shelf seas to deep seas), effects of climate change on marine ecosystems and global fisheries (historical data analyses and modelling future scenarios), development of robust methods to support an ecosystem-based management (ecological models and indicators).
Name: Dr Anna Farmery
Affiliation: Senior Fellow | Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS), University of Wollongong
Dr Anna Farmery is a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS) at the University of Wollongong in Australia. Her research focus is on the intersection between human and planetary health, with a specific focus on aquatic foods. Anna works on multiple aspects of sustainable food systems including wild capture fisheries and aquaculture production, value chains, food environments, consumption and diets, as well as resource governance and food policy implementation – in Australia, Cambodia, Timor Leste and in several Pacific Island countries.
Name: Dr Rich Cottrell
Affiliation: Research Fellow | Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies
Rich is a Research Fellow interested in how human food production systems affect our planet. Rich’s work mainly focuses on aquaculture, and how this rapidly growing food sector can evolve to sustainably provide food and nutrition to a human population growing in number and affluence under global change. Through data synthesis and ecological modelling, Rich’s research aims to understand 1) the growth potential of aquaculture in response to demand given its need for space and inputs, 2) the environmental and social impacts of aquaculture’s current and projected growth, and 3) how this picture changes amid a backdrop of climate change, extreme weather, and geopolitical shocks.
Name: Professor Duncan Cameron
Affiliation: Professor of Environmental Sustainability | University of Manchester
Dunc worked previously at the University of Sheffield where he was Co-Director of The Institute for Sustainable Food. He is an environmental microbiologist and biological chemist and his research seeks to understand how soil microbes enhance plant nutrition and health in the context of sustainable agriculture and global food security.
Name: Professor John Bowman
Affiliation: Professor | Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture
John Bowman is the leader of the Centre for Food Safety and Innovation, Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture of the University of Tasmania. He is a microbiologist and his research is mainly related to food production systems.
Name: Julie Petty
Affiliation: Aquaculture Project and Policy Officer | Seafood Industry Australia
Julie Petty has more than 14 years’ project management experience working in Australian agriculture, predominately horticulture and red meat, and is now working with SIA as the Policy and Project Officer – Aquaculture. Julie’s career path has given her the opportunity to dabble in several areas including animal traceability technologies, industry strategic planning and development, project management, communications and event organisation. Julie has on the ground experience with practical research, development and extension (RDE) theory from her work with the Australian goatmeat industry and Meat and Livestock Australia where she managed the goat RDE program.
FACILITATOR
Name: Professor Chris Carter
Affiliation: Program Leader for Seafood and Marine Products | Blue Economy CRC and Professor | IMAS
Professor Chris Carter is Program Leader for Seafood and Marine Products in the Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre and Professor of Aquaculture Nutrition at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS).
His main interest is building sustainable aquaculture through research, education and stakeholder collaboration. He has been at the University of Tasmania for over 25 years and led the School of Aquaculture and aquaculture at the Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute as well as being Education Leader on two seafood Cooperative Research Centres. His current research is on the nutritional physiology of aquatic ectotherms, developing sustainable aquafeeds, on-land and offshore aquaculture systems and rock lobster aquaculture.
