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Date:
September 7, 2022
Time:
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Cost:
Free – $20.00
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A Zoom event under Chatham House rule
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Cultivating Climate Courage

MF Digital with Dr Anika Molesworth

Hosted by:
Simon Molesworth AO KC

September 7, 2022 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Free – $20.00

There are ways to protect our land, our food and our future, and they’re within our grasp if we are cultivate climate courage.

Dr Anika Molesworth is a recognised thought-leader of agro-ecological systems resilience and international farming development. With a passion for rural communities and healthy ecosystems, she is committed to help create sustainable and vibrant rural landscapes now and for the future. She is a Founding Director of Farmers for Climate Action – a national network of over 7,000 Australian farmers undertaking climate change action. In 2017, she presented at TEDxYouthSydney the talk “Farmers are key to a better future.”

Anika is the author of the book, Our Sunburnt Country. Awards include 2015 Young Farmer of the Year, and 2017 Young Australian of the Year NSW Finalist, and although the daughter of our member, Simon Molesworth AO QC, she was invited to lead a conversation by Chris Gallagher after Chris took interest in her work after learning about her through the 2022 Adelaide Writers Festival. 

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