[CSIRO] A symposium entitled: Biosecurity in the New Bioeconomy: Threats and Opportunities, will be hosted by CSIRO at the Shine Dome in Canberra from Thursday 19 to Saturday 21 November.17 November 2009. “New agricultural non-food crops, especially those developed to meet the growing demand for biofuels and other renewable industrial needs in the 21st Century, will have to meet triple bottom line – people, planet, profit – criteria,” says CSIRO Entomology’s Dr Andy Sheppard. “Sustainable management of pests in new crops and minimisation of any invasive threats these crops pose to the environment will be essential to their success.”
Dr Sheppard says the world needs safe production systems for new non-food crops and the symposium outcomes will help underpin scientific research and policy development into the future.
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“Sustainable management of pests in new crops and minimisation of any invasive threats these crops pose to the environment will be essential to their success.” Dr Andy Sheppard
Topics to be discussed include:
The global bioeconomy
Benefits, environmental risks and biosecurity issues of biofuel crops
Research and development opportunities for bioindustries
National and international agricultural biosecurity policies.
The program brings together scientists from countries including: France, the US, Denmark, the UK, South Africa, Canada and New Zealand representing a diverse range of organisations including; government, universities, private groups, industry and CSIRO.
This CSIRO (Office of the Chief Executive) Cutting Edge Science Symposium is also supported by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD’s) Cooperative Research Programme/Biological resource management for sustainable agricultural systems.
