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Foodprint Melbourne: Building the Resilience of Melbourne’s Food System

Online event

We tend to think of Melbourne and other cities in Australia as places that are food secure; nationally, we produce enough food to support 60,000,000 people, more than twice our population, in service of our role as a major exporter of primary goods and food products. Supermarket shelves are usually filled with food, all year around. But in the last 18 months we’ve seen images of sparsely-occupied shelves, crops being dug [...]

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Young Scientist Research Prizes Competition: Presentations, Judging and Prize Ceremony

Online event

To foster and recognise excellence in Victoria’s early career scientists, the Royal Society of Victoria has established four prestigious competitive prizes open to Victorian students in their final year of doctoral candidature, in all areas of the Biomedical & Health Sciences, Biological Sciences (Non-human), Earth Sciences and Physical Sciences. Following assessment of applications across the four categories, we will select eight PhD finalists to present their work to us during National Science [...]

Indigenous Food and Agriculture

Online event

A Joint Presentation with the ACT National Science Week Coordinating Committee Join the Royal Society of Victoria for a special webinar on Indigenous agriculture, where we’ll yarn about native foods and Indigenous farmers — everything from practising agriculture as a traditional custodian, growing bush foods and making sure they’re safe to eat, preparing amazing meals and getting Australian native foods to market! About the Speakers Luke Williams is a proud Gumbaynggirr descendent [...]

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