Amanda Garner: Chairperson, Australian Native Food Industry LimitedAmanda was appointed Chair of the Australian Native Food Industry Limited in March 2014, and she first joined the ANFIL Board in 2012. She has more than 25 years experience in food and agribusiness: from broad-acre farming to corporate catering and event management. She is co-principal of the consulting firm UPAH&Co.
Amanda is a 2015 Australian Rural Women's Victorian Award Finalist; 2013 Australian Rural Leadership Trailblazers Course Fellow; 2013 Agrifood Skills Australia International Fellowship’; and a cordon Bleu trained Chef. She is also half way through a Degree in Horticulture (paused due to the growing needs of her children). Her family has been involved in farming for over 140 years, and Amanda and her family have a property in western Victoria. Amanda is a passionate advocate for the Australian native foods industry. “We are caretakers and custodians of the land to pass onto the next generation”, is the inherited motto she lives and works by. Her Agri skills Fellowship was about developing a focus on Native Foods Provenance and Sovereignty. She is driven to further research into viable native crops to apply to broad acre farming in arid zones across Australia; and developing Government focus in Indigenous horticulture projects and Intellectual Property surrounding individual species. |
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