AUSTRALIAN producers will have more opportunity to sculpt international food policy as the Nuffield program expands its relationship with worldwide bodies.
Nuffield international ambassador and Victorian fisher Wayne Dredge said agricultural policy was increasingly being driven by international objectives, and therefore producers had to have a seat at the table when those objectives were being made.
This year a delegation of 35 Nuffield scholars will attend the UN Committee on Food Security in Rome - the only committee of its kind which allows private sector agribusiness, farmer or fisher involvement.
Nuffield is a member of the Private Member Mechanism section of the CFS, which puts them in the same room as the largest agriculture and food production companies in the world, such as Mars, Unilever, Bayer and Syngenta.
Mr Dredge said this gives Nuffield the opportunity to go right to the top of policy discussions.
