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The AIA NSW Division is delighted to invite you to attend our upcoming dinner at the unique venue Doltone House on Sydney Harbour.

Date        Monday 27 May 2013

Time        7.00pm – 10.00pm

Where     Doltone House 
                The Loft, Jones Bay Wharf 
                Piers 19-21 Upper Deck 
                26 - 32 Pirrama Road 
                Pyrmont, Sydney

Cost         Member: $75.00 
               Non-member: $110.00 
               Guests will enjoy canapés, a three course meal and beverages 
               All prices are inclusive of GST

About        Australian households throw out $8 billion of edible food every year, that’s about 4 million tonnes of food waste. The water, energy, materials and fuel used to harvest, transport, process, package, distribute and market food is also wasted. This is a local issue, a national issue and a global issue. In 2013 the NSW division of the AIA will be focusing on this issue with two events and asking the question, ‘what will be the role of agricultural and NRM professionals in addressing this issue?’ Event one to be held in conjunction with the National AGM of the AIA, will feature the following guest speakers:

John Webster, CEO, Foodbank Australia

John joined Foodbank Australia Limited as CEO in June 2009. Foodbank is the largest hunger relief organisation in Australia – it is a national organisation with distribution centres in six states, the NT and eight regional centres – it operates as a conduit between the food and grocery industry’s donations of surplus food and the welfare sector’s needs. Foodbank distributed 24 million kilos of donated food last year which made over 32 million meals. This helped feed 88,000 people each day through 2,500 welfare agencies members. As a previous Managing Director of Horticulture Australia Limited (HAL) and having held senior management roles in Meat & Livestock Australia, John is well versed to discuss the issue of reducing food waste with a strong agricultural context.

Robert Pascoe, Managing Director, Closed Loop Environmental Solutions
Robert pioneered the Closed Loop concept - a resource management system designed to ensure that inputs make desirable outputs, which minimises the amount of waste sent to landfill at the same time as significantly improving organisations environmental and financial performance. Closed Loop partner with many organisations including YUM!/KFC, Qantas, NSW Health, MCG and ANZ Stadium in Australia and Heathrow airport and Emirates Stadium in the UK, to assist them in making ‘good’ corporate decisions that not only make great environmental sense but great financial sense too. Closed Loop has just launched Australia’s first “closed-loop” domestic composting unit, enabling households to convert their waste into nutrient rich compost in just 24 hours (as featured in The Australian on Monday 13th May).

Robert owns a farm near Anglesea in Victoria farming alpacas, sheep, cattle and produce. He is passionate about product life cycle in all facets of his life, and his farm is no exception as he enthusiastically embraces sustainable paddock to plate concepts.

Chris Russell, Fellow of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology

Trained as an agricultural scientist and specialising in conserved fodder and intensive cattle feeding, Chris has spent the last thirty years working in various technical and commercial roles in over 30 countries including a UN sponsored mission to Mongolia to help the nomadic herders adapt to a privatised economy after the collapse of the USSR in 1992.

Currently he is Technical Director and Joint CEO of a group of companies focused on innovation in agriculture and industry. Chris will be our Master Commentator on the evening, facilitating questions with the speakers and providing additional comment and insight, based on his extensive knowledge of the Institute and its Members.

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