Hosted by the Hovells Creek Landcare group, a workshop to explore current and future strategies to manage climate variability will be held on August 30 at the Frogmore Hall, starting at 12pm.
This workshop is sponsored by Stockland Care Foundation through Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal.
Discussion topics include:
- Understanding how the climate is changing and how climate variability is driving changes in agriculture; and
- What does climate variability mean for farm enterprises towards 2030?
Speakers include director of Climate Change Institute, ANU College of Health and Medicine, Professor Mark Howden.
He has worked on climate variability, climate change, innovation and adoption issues for over 30 years in partnership with many industry, community and policy groups via both research and science-policy roles.
Professor Howden is an expert on how climate variability and climate change will impact on food production and food security and how to adapt to those impacts.
Formerly a NSW Department of Primary Industries sheep and wool officer at Yass, Phil Graham will talk about adapting future livestock enterprises in NSW to discuss how these enterprises can still be productive and profitable, with change initiated over time in response to constraints forced by climate.
In late 2009, the Southern Livestock Adaptation 2030 project started looking at the impacts on livestock industries of potential changes in the weather at 2030.
Melinda Hillery is a climate change adaptation regional team member working for NSW Government.
She has a background as a scientist working in desert/semi arid Australia as well as a number of years working with community organisations on land and catchment care: and will present information about how climate change affects you and how NSW government tools will help you know, assess and respond.
The day is free with lunch and afternoon tea provided, but organisers request people RSVP to enable catering.
