Press Release – Michael King Writers’ Centre
Kate Mildenhall has been announced as the recipient of the inaugural New Zealand-Australia residency exchange, an international residency program held by Varuna, the Australian National Writers House in collaboration with the Michael King Writers Centre in Auckland and the Verb Wellington Writers Festival.
Kate is the much-acclaimed author of the novels
Skylarking (Black Inc.) and
The Mother Fault (S&S).
The Mother Fault was longlisted for the 2021 ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2021 Aurealis Science Fiction Novel of the Year.
Subject to travel restrictions, the four-week residency exchange will take place in October 2021. Kate will work on her third novel at the Michael King Writers Centre before flying to Wellington to participate in the Verb Wellington Writers Festival.
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Digital agriculture in Asia and the Pacific: Strategies for donor impact
IFAD Asset Request Portlet
12 July 2021
11:00 - 12:30 CEST | 17:00 - 18:30 SGT
Over the last two decades, mobile and smartphone ownership and mobile coverage in rural Asia have increased steadily. As a result, farmers and agribusinesses are increasingly able to use digital technologies to address the challenges that they face, including limited access to markets. There are systemic challenges, however, that are in need of public sector and donor support, particularly to drive positive outcomes for smallholder farmers.
This webinar will launch a new report by Grow Asia, commissioned by IFAD, which illustrates how digital technologies are reshaping agriculture in the region.
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