2nd John Glover Symposium: past, present, and futu
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About this event
This two-day symposium will cover ‘agriculture’ in its broadest possible sense. It includes presentations about Aboriginal practices of agriculture and the plants and animals they used for food, and the potential for these species to be used for food production now. If also addresses the question of WA’s potential to feed SE Asia (which some people dream about). Massive clearing of the wheatbelt (‘a million acres a year’) and replacing karri forests by farms fields (in vain) will feature. Restoration of our degraded lands and their use for saline agriculture will also feature. Is dryland salinity still an issue, or has this problem vanished given our declining rainfall? The symposium will feature a wide range of disciplines, including history, agronomy, ecology, archaeology, to name just a few.
Free for RSWA members!
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Program
Friday 7th October
8.30 Opening and Welcome: Hon Alannah MacTiernan MLC, Minister for Regional Development; Agriculture and Food; Hydrogen Industry
8.45 Matthew Tonts, Chair EPA: The wheatbelt, its history and geography
9.30 Hugh Chevis, UWA: Human agents and endemic grassy ecosystems in south-Western Australia
10.00 Roy Jones, Curtin University: Changing ideals and realities: a longitudinal view of rural Western Australia
10.30 Morning coffee
11.00 Three PhD student talks, selected from submitted abstracts with a focus on the past, present, and future of agriculture in WA
11.30 Andrea Gaynor, UWA: A million acres a year
12.00 Keith Bradby, Gondwana link: Building more liveable landscapes, the Gondwana Link experience’
12.30 Lunch & Poster session, open for all students undertaking projects concerning any aspect of science relevant to Western Australia
13.30 Ella Maesepp, Katanning Landcare: Saline bush foods
14.00 Nicole Chalmer, Esperance: Ecoagriculture for a Sustainable Food Future
14.30 Lachy Norman, Plantation and Landcare Services: Revegetation and rehabilitation of marginalised farmland, mine site and actively work with the carbon credit system
15.00 Afternoon tea & Poster session, open for all students undertaking projects concerning any aspect of science relevant to Western Australia
15.30 Jatin Kala, Murdoch Univ.: The climate in WA: past, present, and future
16.00 John Simons, DPIRD, and Peter Caccetta, CSIRO: Is dryland salinity still an issue to worry about, or has climate change made it go away?
16.30 Rajeev Varshney, Murdoch Univ.: Breeding of climate change proofed chickpeas
Saturday 8th October
8.45 Michael Robertson, CSIRO: Adaptation of agriculture to a changing climate
9.30 Tony Hughes-D’Aeth, UWA: The history of the wheatbelt
10.00 Kadambot Siddique, UWA: Can WA be a food bowl for SE Asia?
10.30 Morning coffee
11.00 Three PhD student talks, selected from submitted abstracts with a focus on the past, present, and future of agriculture in WA
11.30 Jens Berger, CSIRO: The use of crop wild relatives in breeding to increase crop adaptation to marginal environments.
12.00 Terry Hill, DPIRD: How government affects agriculture and regional development in WA: an insider’s view
12.30 Lunch & Poster session, open for all students undertaking projects concerning any aspect of science relevant to Western Australia
13.30 Blair Parsons, Greening Australia: Biodiverse carbon: nature-based solutions for agriculture
14.00 Bede Mickan, UWA: Nutrient recovery from sewage: opportunities and challenges for human derived sustainable fertilisers
14.30 Adam Cross, Curtin Univ.: A paradigm shift toward a restorative culture
15.00 Announcement of the winners of the Poster Prizes, followed by afternoon tea & Poster session, open for all students undertaking projects concerning any aspect of science relevant to Western Australia
15.30 Andrew Fletcher, CSIRO: Potential intercropping systems for future cropping. Prospects and pitfalls
16.00 Geoff Woodall, Native plant agronomist: South-western flora in novel and profitable agriculture
16.30 Ross Kingwell, Australian Export Grains Innovation Centre WA: Making agriculture of south-western Australia carbon neutral amid a changing climate
17.00 Closing Remarks