Join Amanda Niehaus (biologist and an award-winning writer) and an expert panel including Professor Ian Godwin, Dr Heather Smyth, and Jimmy Botella as they discuss 'Good Enough to Eat?: Next Generation GM Crops' on the 31st of July.
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI) researcher, Dr Karine Chenu, has found that grain yields have decreased by an average of 240 kilograms per decade since 1985. She says the trend is striking.
Dr Yan Zhao will present a QAAFI Science Seminar titled 'Predicting field scale yield: An integrated approach using high resolution satellite data and biophysical modelling'.
GM crops continue to produce productivity gains and environmental benefits worldwide, although those benefits are mostly limited to cotton and canola in Australia. Read opinion piece by Prof Ian Godwin.
Productivity gains made by the Australian sorghum industry are unmatched anywhere else in the world, according to a report by the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI).
The focus on wheat yield gains has sharpened considerably since estimates back in 2012 found that existing rates of improvement were not going to keep pace with rising demand. The world's response was the US$100 million International Wheat Yield Partnership (IWYP).
