Governance options for a healthier and more sustainable future food system
A State of the Food System Webinar
FRIDAY, 1 August 2025
12:00NN to 1:00PM AEST
ONLINE MS Teams
The recently released ‘Towards a state of the food system report for Australia‘ highlighted the need to better manage our food system. But what does that look like? This forum is an opportunity to discuss whether Australia needs to take a different approach to food system governance, and what that approach might look like. We’ll reflect on what drives this need: the increasingly diverse goals we have for our food system, especially public-good sustainability and health goals alongside economic goals, and compare this with similar systems across Australia.
Join the discussion and hear from report authors Dr Rohan Nelson, Dr Cathy Robinson and Dr Andy Hall.
Read more about our overview of the state of the food system.
Who will you hear from?
Dr Rohan Nelson, Speaker
Dr Rohan Nelson is an agricultural and food system economist on secondment from ABARES to CSIRO and is co-editor of the state of the food system report and is lead author of the report’s Overview. His has expertise in the design of future-ready public sector analysis and reporting systems in the agriculture and food sectors. Along the way he has acquired deep knowledge and practical skills in the participatory co-design of food system, industry, innovation, climate and natural resource management policy.
Dr Cathy Robinson, Speaker
Cathy is a Research Group Leader in CSIRO’s Agriculture and Food Sustainability Program and co-editor of the state of food system report. Cathy also leads and supports several initiatives that provide practical examples of how to accelerate innovation with ideas that value and enable diversity. She applies her expertise to develop innovative scientific methods and system-level frameworks that can take account Indigenous, practitioner and scientific knowledge in natural resource assessment and management.
Dr Andy Hall, Speaker
Andy is a Senior Principal Research Scientist with CSIRO Agriculture and Food and is based in Canberra, Australia. He is a science and technology policy analyst with a specialisation in the study and design of agriculture innovation processes, policies and practices. Andy did pioneering research on the nature and performance of agricultural innovation systems and currently researchers the enablers of transformational innovation in agri-food systems.
Is there another chance to join?
The presentation part of this webinar will be recorded and be made available on this page for those who are not able to attend on the day. Discussions will not be recorded.
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