Australian Farm Institute 2019 Roundtable

Session: Opportunities to build natural capital

Facilitator: AFI General Manager, Katie McRobert

Guest speaker: Tim Beshara, Federal Policy Director of The Wilderness Society

Presentation summary:

Tim’s role with The Wilderness Society is to engage with parliament and industry around biodiversity law reform. Tim has a background in environmental restoration and invasive species management and has extensive experience of how environmental policy is made including the role of ministers, political parties, ENGO groups, parliament and the press gallery. At the AFI Roundtable, Tim outlined ways the ag sector could ‘Australian-ify’ an ecosystem services model that works for our landscape, geographic and political.

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

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

Download the Spring 2019 Farm Policy Journal edition on “Managing agriculture’s ecosystem services”

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

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