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March 2020
Healthy plants, healthy people The ‘Healthy plants healthy people’ conference ties into the UN proclaimed International Year of Plant Health and will contribute to raising awareness of how protecting plant health can support people through health and well-being, economic development, protecting the environment, providing food security and helping to end poverty. It will be a ‘ground up’ practical conference to assist businesses be agile, flexible and responsive in a changing business and operating environment.
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Enlighten Festival is shining a spotlight on Canberra’s talented filmmakers as competition sparks creativity. For the 17th year of Lights! Canberra! Action! the theme is ‘planted’, which will tie in with the International Year of the Plant as well as 100 years since Canberra began populating. Filmmakers will also be given a list of ten items to include in their movie, with only ten days to shoot, edit and produce a seven minute film.
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Be part of Victoria’s largest sustainability education conference focussed on the UN’s International Year of Plant Health. Join over 200 teachers, environmental educators and local government officers at the Steps to Sustainability 2020 conference. This year’s conference will have a focus on sustainability education for action on health and wellbeing of our environment and our people. This conference has been designed especially for people working on school sustainability projects and curriculum initiatives. Enjoy a day at the Royal Botanic Gardens,…
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Australian Government Department of Agriculture’s Science Exchange. Save the date. More information to come
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Towards 2050 This is the first conference since 2014 and we believe there will be great benefits by providing this new opportunity for breeders and allied scientists across all crops (including grains, fodder, fruit and nuts, forestry, floriculture) to come together. The theme ‘Towards 2050’ has been chosen to capture the long-term nature of plant breeding, and the essential role the discipline will play in delivering food and prosperity to the predicted world population of 9 billion by this date,…
Find out more »October 2020
A Weed Odyssey: Innovation for the future The Weed Management Society of South Australia, on behalf of the Council of Australasian Weed Societies, will be hosting the 22nd Australasian Weeds Conference at Adelaide Oval from 25-28 October 2020.
Find out more »November 2020
With a record number of smiles coming through the gates last year, plans already afoot to make the 2020 Canning Show even bigger and better, so best save the dates for the next annual Canning Show.
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Protecting the roots of plant health The previous symposia have been outstanding successes promoting soilborne disease and soil health to the world. In the International Year of Plant Health, ASDS 2020 will be under the banner of ‘Protecting the roots of plant health’. This conference will feature renowned scientists, leading industry identities from overseas and within Australia. Pre-symposium workshops and field trips will feature current topics of interest including: pathogen-plant-microbe interactions overcoming Fusarium wilts on-farm biosecurity practices
Find out more »December 2020
The Hemipteran-Plant Interactions Symposium (HPIS) is an interdisciplinary, international congress, bringing together researchers who study phytophagous piercing/sucking insects, their complex interactions with their host plants, environment and pathogen transmission. The congress will bring together entomologists with expertise on phytophagous hemipteran insects (Orders Hemiptera and Thysanoptera) and their endosymbionts, plant biologists and physiologists with expertise on plant defences and responses to hemipteran feeding, and plant pathologists with expertise on transmission of plant pathogens by hemipterans. It will facilitate an exchange of…
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