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📸 Ranjita Sapkota, a PhD candidate from UniSA_CMVI UniSA, is currently in India for her #NextGenAg4D case study research. Ranjita aims to collect insights from various local #foodsystems actors across the Eastern Gangetic Plains. Uni of Adelaide ACIAR

🗓️ Mark your calendars for Australia’s key #foodsecurity event: The 2025 Crawford Fund Annual Conference! 🗓️ 11-12 August 📍 Canberra, Australia + online 👤 Sir John Crawford Memorial Address will be presented by Joel Fitzgibbon Register NOW: buff.ly/C1tQCHk #25CFConf

⁉️🌏 How can approaches like photovoice technology empower underrepresented voices in developing countries? Read Francesca Earp’s story and discover how her research is shaping impactful change in Northern Laos. 🔗 buff.ly/TVQ4ajr #NextGenAg4D James Cook Uni CARE International

Our 2025 Derek Tribe Award goes to Dr Velu Govindan 🎖️ The Derek Tribe Award honours outstanding scientists from developing countries. Learn why Velu Govindan's the 2025 Derek Tribe Award recipient 👉 buff.ly/Ax3aS0F ACIAR CIMMYT

🌟 We’re proud to support the next generation of changemakers like Francesca Earp, whose work empowers communities through inclusive and participatory research. 🇱🇦 Learn about her impactful project: buff.ly/yiN2Sws #NextGenAg4D James Cook Uni CARE International

At #25CFConf, IRRI 🌾’s Ando Radanielson will present a compelling case study on low-emissions solutions for rice, and the way forward: buff.ly/rF6E20c The Crawford Fund

At the 2025 Crawford Fund Annual Conference, global experts and policymakers will tackle tough questions like: 🚜 How do we sustainably intensify food production? 👩‍🌾 Can inclusivity drive climate resilience in agrifood systems? ℹ️ Register for #25CFConf: buff.ly/C1tQCHk

This week we’ll be posting from Vietnam on partnerships on crops, livestock and forestry work - thanks to funding from Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade 🇦🇺 Australia-ASEAN Council and assistance from ACIAR and many wonderful 🇻🇳 and CGIAR partners Tiffany McDonald Gillian Bird 🇦🇺. Excited for the week ahead!

Our visit to Vietnam kicked off with a coffee chat in Hanoi: Chris McLennan FarmOnline caught up with Estelle Bienabe Cirad and Tam Ninh Nguyen CIFOR-ICRAF to explore an ACIAR project on how smallholder farmers can take part in the high-quality Robusta coffee market.

Today’s visit to Vietnam Academy of Forest Sciences showed us important ACIAR projects - in face of more trade and changing climate, good biosecurity practice, risk surveillance & analysis and improved tree varieties more important than ever 🇻🇳 tree growers and Aust!

What luck! Our Special Projects Director Cathy Reade connected with Dr Hung & Ms Loan, our 2024 Fellowship awardees, and our Qld Committee member Dr Madaline Healey UniSC: University of the Sunshine Coast at today’s visit to ACIAR forest biosecurity project. Can’t wait to welcome Hung & Loan to Aust!

With decades of eminent service to rural and regional development, and in leadership as Chair of the Crawford Fund, John Anderson AC will be welcoming you to #25CFConf! 🇦🇺 11–12 Aug | Parliament House, Canberra 👤 buff.ly/exFHxej ℹ️ Register: buff.ly/C1tQCHk

Through her research, our #NextGenAg4D Student Awardee Francesca Earp James Cook Uni helped develop a tailored M&E framework with local practitioners, strengthening culturally-sensitive, gender-targeted agricultural development programs in Laos 🇱🇦 Read all about it 👉 buff.ly/yiN2Sws

Such an interesting day with the team from the Vietnam National Institute of Animal Sciences involved in @aciaraustralia project - partners working with University of Tasmania to improve opportunities for 🇻🇳 smallholder farmers in the growing livestock sector and trade Gillian Bird 🇦🇺 Tiffany McDonald

With a history of over 40 years, this year’s Crawford Fund prestigious Sir John Crawford Memorial Address will be made at #25CFConf by Hon Joel Fitzgibbon with a focus on ‘Lessons in Leadership from the Frontlines of Policy’, on 11 Aug 2025. 👤 Read his bio: buff.ly/5P0C6uJ

We have joined 153 Nobel and World Food Prize Laureates advocating for bold ag research to combat hunger and the climate crisis. With 700M hungry today, we need moonshot innovations to feed 1.5 billion more by 2050. It's time for action 🌱 #EndHunger #WFPLaureates4Action

Constant battle but lots of smiles! Protecting cassava yield thru breeding for disease resistance for Vietnamese farmers -wonderful to hear of success from Jonathan Newby Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT in ACIAR project with more income for farmers, cassava regions and the whole country!

Of all Vietnam’s cassava fields! Lovely coincidence to meet Hung Ngoc Nguyen during a visit to ACIAR Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT project. He told Director of Special Projects Cathy Reade how useful he’s found our research leadership & management masterclass Jonathan Newby Shaun Coffey 🚢

🍃🐄🥛 Better Napier grass means better growth, milk yields, and resilience! Cameron Clark’s training in Bangladesh highlights the power of evidence-driven training can deliver big gains. 🤝 Proudly supported by Charles Sturt University and the Crawford Fund. 🔗 buff.ly/if3T168

Another journalist visit done & dusted! Thank you Chris McLennan FarmOnline for effort getting around #Vietnam with Cathy Reade to hear about ACIAR coffee, cassava, livestock and forestry work. Such special collaborations. Tku ASEAN-Australia Centre for support Gillian Bird 🇦🇺