CRAWFORD FUND ANNUAL CONFERENCE

The Supermarket Revolution and Food Security
14-16 August 2011
Parliament House, Canberra

While the current debate around supermarkets in Australia is focussing on their pricing policies, the issues related to the so-called ‘supermarket revolution’ are much broader both in Australia and in the developing world.

The 2011 Crawford Fund annual development conference is titled The Supermarket Revolution in Food: Good, Bad or Ugly for the World’s Farmers, Consumers and Retailers? The event will be held on 14-16 August in Canberra and will debate the extent to which the growing significance of supermarkets and a range of issues related to the marketing chain are impacting consumers, producers and traders.

President Haruhiko Kuroda of the Asian Development Bank; Professor Thomas Reardon from Michigan State University who is the leading international scholar in the field, and Professor Allan Fels AO, former chair of the ACCC, will join a range of international and Australian specialists to highlight what the issues are and what they mean for world food supply, trade, security and scarcity.

The Hon Kevin Rudd, Minister for Foreign Affairs, will present the Sir John Crawford Memorial Address at the conference dinner on 15 August.

More information is available at www.crawfordfund.org or contact Cathy Reade cathy.reade@crawfordfund.org