Dr Robyn Alders

Research highlights

• Alders, R. and Tomley, F. 2022. Animal Board Invited Opinion Paper: Planet, people and poultry – more and better data needed to get the balance right. Animal 16:100560.
• Essam, S., Gill, T. and Alders, R.G. 2022. Dubai Municipality Initiative to Reduce Food Loss. Sustainability, 14(9), 5374.
• Essam, S., Gill, T. and Alders, R.G. 2022. The White Meat Industry in Dubai through a One Health Lens. Sustainability, 14(10), 6358.

Outreach

• "Sustainable Animal Production in the 21st Century: Multiple contributions to People and the Planet", 2022 National Livestock Conference, Vizag, India; 11 April 2022 [PDF 1.65MB]
• "Nourishing people & poultry efficiently & sustainably in the 21st century: challenges & opportunities", Worlds Poultry Congress 2022, Paris, France, 7-11 August 2022 [PDF 962KB]
• "Preventing pandemics, improving food security: sustainable control of vaccine preventable animal disease in resource-limited settings", 7th World One Health Congress, Singapore, 9 November 2022 [PDF 662KB]
• "Employing a One Health lens to farming", Connecting People, Connecting Nature conference, 19 October 2022 [PDF 1.34MB]
• "One Health communication: easier said than done", One Health EJP Final School 2022, University of Surrey, 5 December 2022 [1MB]

Dr Alders was also invited by DFAT to join the 'Building resilience through food security' panel on 21 September at the Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction (APMCDRR) Brisbane, Australia, 19-23 September 2022 (7-minute talking points).

Dr Rachael Rodney Harris

Research highlights

As part of the ANU-DISR (prev. DISER) partnership we completed a collaborative project exploring the barriers, enablers, and opportunities for the adoption of low emission agricultural practices in Australia. The findings of this work will have direct impact on new agricultural climate policy (the responsibility for which now sits within DCCEEW). The project involved a government secondee spending time at ICEDS as part of the research team. We gave a briefing of the findings to key DCCEEW staff (Land and Climate Active Branch, Emissions Reduction Division) in November and coming from this Rachael was invited to participate as a panellist at the Livestock Emissions Reduction Forum in December. The research team included Rachael Rodney Harris, Bronwyn Wilkes, Alex Brown (DISR/DCCEEW secondee) and Holley Jones.

Dr Steven Lade

Research highlights

The way we produce our food today means that many of the Earth system processes will amplify current problems rather than attenuating them. However, this also means that positive actions in one domain can cascade through to others through interactions. See publication below:

Chrysafi et al. Quantifying Earth system interactions for sustainable food production via expert elicitation, Nature Sustainability, 5, p830–842 (2022).

Dr Anika Molesworth

Awards and honours

• Young Conservationist of the Year, Australian Geographic
• Youth as our Changemaker Award, Banksia Foundation