NATIONAL AGRICULTURE DAY
Friday November 17 is National Agriculture Day. Experts from La Trobe University are available to discuss key themes relating to Australia’s agriculture future.
Associate Professor Jim Radford
Department of Environment and Genetics, School of Agriculture, Biomedicine and Environment
Dr Radford can speak to:
- outcomes of landscape change on ecological communities and native wildlife in agricultural landscapes
- practices to increase the ecological sustainability of farming
- integrating nature conservation into productive farming systems
- natural capital accounting for sustainability reporting in agriculture
Director of La Trobe Institute for Sustainable Agriculture and Food
Expertise: A leader in plant biotechnology, Professor Bacic is focused on the structure, function and biosynthesis of plant cell walls and their biotechnological application as well as the application of functional genomics tools in biological systems.
Department of Environment and Genetics, School of Agriculture, Biomedicine and Environment
Expertise: Plants for Space (Plants For Space - ARC Centre of Excellence (plants4space.com)
- making plants more resilient to stressful climates,
- crop diseases
- plant based food and fibres.
For interviews with any of our academics please contact:
Sue Smethurst,Senior Media Manager
0418 643 520
media@latrobe.edu.au
