RiAus PDplus: Food Security – how will we feed a growing global population?

Event date: Monday 21 March 2011 - 03:45pm to 04:30pm
Program: PDplus.

RiAus PD<em>plus</em>: Food Security – how will we feed a growing global population?

Special Event for Teachers

Featuring Peter Langridge, Chief Executive Officer of The Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics.

What impact may climate change, water security, poor soils and crop disease have on Australia’s food security in the future?

Themes:

Farmers breeding crops that are resistant to disease
Seed banks and why they’re so important to food security
How climate change and population growth is interfering with crop growth
Sustainable farms of the future
Making your diet more sustainable

RiAus PDplus Teacher Notes on Food Security are now available view online – click here to view online (download the PDplus Food Security).

<a href="http://www.vimeo.com/21380734">http://www.vimeo.com/21380734</a>

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RiAus PDplus: Synthetic Biology — creating life in the lab

RiAus PDplus: The Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a telescope to explore the early universe

PDplus is a new initiative of the RiAus focusing on providing professional development opportunities for teachers, delivered online. The sessions draw on the varied and exciting public program of science engagement activities at RiAus and provide a unique opportunity for teachers to have access and put questions to scientists about their research and careers. These sessions are aimed at middle school (year 7-9) teachers, and will be complemented by extensive resources for further classroom activity.