Professor and Chair Shashi Sharma I am currently engaged in establishing a Centre for Biosecurity and Food Security at Murdoch University. This Centre is unique in that no other research centre in the world has mandated biosecurity as an integral component of global food security. The Centre offers a new paradigm of research through the food value chains across the terrestrial and aquatic food sectors including food trade and distribution. The paradigm calls for integration of biological, chemical, engineering and social sciences to deliver research outputs. The three key research themes of the Centre (3Ps) are: Produce food sustainably (P1);Protect food from loss and waste in the value chain (P2); and, Provide bio-secure, safe and nutritious food (P3). Murdoch University has existing strengths in the P1 theme, and has identified a need for capability enhancement in the P2 and P3 themes to develop new tools and technologies for post-harvest food loss and food waste management, managingchemical contaminants, food safety, and innovative technologies for improved market access and trade.

• 1: Introduction.- 2: Is there enough food?.- 3: Food security – how did we get to where we are now?.- 4: Are there fundamental constraints to food security?.- 5: Biosecure global food value chains.- 6: Exploit additional food sources.- 7: Eliminate food losses.- 8: Rethinking agro-ecosystems and diversity with farming systems.- 9: In search of answers – tying it all together.- 10: Way forward.

Professor and Chair Shashi Sharma I am currently engaged in establishing a Centre for Biosecurity and Food Security at Murdoch University. This Centre is unique in that no other research centre in the world has mandated biosecurity as an integral component of global food security. The Centre offers a new paradigm of research through the food value chains across the terrestrial and aquatic food sectors including food trade and distribution. The paradigm calls for integration of biological, chemical, engineering and social sciences to deliver research outputs. The three key research themes of the Centre (3Ps) are: Produce food sustainably (P1);Protect food from loss and waste in the value chain (P2); and, Provide bio-secure, safe and nutritious food (P3). Murdoch University has existing strengths in the P1 theme, and has identified a need for capability enhancement in the P2 and P3 themes to develop new tools and technologies for post-harvest food loss and food waste management, managingchemical contaminants, food safety, and innovative technologies for improved market access and trade.

• 1: Introduction.- 2: Is there enough food?.- 3: Food security – how did we get to where we are now?.- 4: Are there fundamental constraints to food security?.- 5: Biosecure global food value chains.- 6: Exploit additional food sources.- 7: Eliminate food losses.- 8: Rethinking agro-ecosystems and diversity with farming systems.- 9: In search of answers – tying it all together.- 10: Way forward.

Professor and Chair Shashi Sharma I am currently engaged in establishing a Centre for Biosecurity and Food Security at Murdoch University. This Centre is unique in that no other research centre in the world has mandated biosecurity as an integral component of global food security. The Centre offers a new paradigm of research through the food value chains across the terrestrial and aquatic food sectors including food trade and distribution. The paradigm calls for integration of biological, chemical, engineering and social sciences to deliver research outputs. The three key research themes of the Centre (3Ps) are: Produce food sustainably (P1);Protect food from loss and waste in the value chain (P2); and, Provide bio-secure, safe and nutritious food (P3). Murdoch University has existing strengths in the P1 theme, and has identified a need for capability enhancement in the P2 and P3 themes to develop new tools and technologies for post-harvest food loss and food waste management, managingchemical contaminants, food safety, and innovative technologies for improved market access and trade.

• 1: Introduction.- 2: Is there enough food?.- 3: Food security – how did we get to where we are now?.- 4: Are there fundamental constraints to food security?.- 5: Biosecure global food value chains.- 6: Exploit additional food sources.- 7: Eliminate food losses.- 8: Rethinking agro-ecosystems and diversity with farming systems.- 9: In search of answers – tying it all together.- 10: Way forward.