Australian Farm Institute 2019 Roundtable

Session: Opportunities to build natural capital

Facilitator: AFI General Manager, Katie McRobert

Guest speaker: Dr. Manu Saunders, Ecologist at University of New England

Presentation summary:

Ecosystem services already play an invisible role in Australian agriculture, Dr Saunders told the AFI Roundtable. Production on many farms benefits from wild pollinators, natural enemies, healthy soil and native vegetation. The challenge, she said, is to find better ways to manage landscapes to sustain and value those ecosystems services, not deplete their supply, by focusing on the role of biodiversity in agroecosystems.

Click or copy/paste link below for Roundtable slide decks and speech transcripts

farminstitute.org.au/news-and-events/ART_2019/Roundtable-2019-speakers

Weekly Times article: https://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/agribusiness/incentivising-stewardship-of-agricultures-natural-capital/news-story/544558f451b8e9ae1d3ac60d50d28c58

Read UNE’s Farm Policy Journal article “Harmonisation of on-farm metrics for sustainability assessment of Australian agricultural industries”

http://farminstitute.org.au/publications/journal/farm-policy-journal-spring-2019

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Dr. Manu Saunders, UNE