Posted: 08-Apr-2021
NZ Guild of Agricultural Journalists and Communicators is hosting a series of sessions with experts across our field. This Thursday’s session is with Distinguished Professor Alison Stewart.
Join us at midday on Thursday 15 April on Zoom. Zoom link here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81957205736
Distinguished Professor Alison Stewart is the CEO of the Foundation for Arable Research. She is an applied plant scientist with a 38 year career focused on sustainable crop production. Her research expertise includes: integrated plant disease management, soil health, biological control and agri-technology. In particular, Alison is internationally recognised for her work on the development of alternatives to synthetic pesticides using naturally occurring beneficial microbes. She has successfully developed and commercialised a number of biopesticide technologies for the horticulture, vegetable, arable and nursery sectors in New Zealand and the USA. Alison is a Fellow of the NZ Institute for Agricultural and Horticultural Science and the Australasian Plant Pathology Society and was elected a Companion of the NZ Order of Merit in 2009 in recognition of her services to plant biology.
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