Recorded seminars

Seminar and workshop videos from Fenner School of Environment & Society.

Small-scale irrigation schemes have been identified as a major vehicle to improve the livelihood of smallholder farmers and their communities in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), including improving food security, education, health and adapting to climate change. Such improvements are critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. However, small-scale irrigation has, for a complex set of reasons widely discussed in the literature, failed to live up to these expectations.

It is increasingly acknowledged that multiple interventions are needed to transform rural communities into sustainable communities, creating jobs, food security and prosperous livelihoods for their residents. This event will discuss what kind of approaches are required to create rural transformation and development.

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In this talk, Dr Matthew Brookhouse will outline the current state of knowledge on snow-gum dieback.

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This seminar will be presented with photos that serve as a window into the threatened world of these amazing amphibians, a living treasure trove of biodiversity in Colombia.

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'Upstreamers & downstreamers’: Promoting investment in First Peoples through the creation of exclusive rights

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Drawing on the speaker’s two decades of policy-engaged research on Nepal’s community forestry development, this seminar first demonstrates the dynamics of delocalisation of forest user communities in Nepal, and then shows how this transformative change has rendered conventional community forestry institutions obsolete.

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A major scorecard gives the health of Australia’s environment less than 1 out of 10. Immediate action is needed to put Australia’s environment on a course to recovery.

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The Affiliates Seminars are an occasional series of events intended to showcase the diversity of research interests and activities of Fenner's many visiting researchers, honorary staff and emeriti.

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Dr Yebra presents an overview of how satellite data informs bushfire management giving specific examples for the 2019-2020 fire season.

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Dr Ken Newcombe introduces the work of his company to address the needs of the rural poor in the Least Developed Countries using climate finance as risk capital for transformational change.

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