Explore how systems thinking helps us navigate complexity, strengthen food resilience, and create lasting change in an increasingly interconnected world.
Many of today's greatest challenges—food security, freshwater, climate, biodiversity and community wellbeing—cannot be solved in isolation. They are interconnected parts of complex living systems that require new ways of thinking.
In this session, Dr Melissa Robson-Williams explores how systems thinking can help us better understand complexity and identify opportunities for meaningful change. Drawing on her work across land, water and food systems, Melissa will demonstrate how bringing together diverse perspectives, embracing uncertainty and recognising relationships between people and nature can lead to more resilient outcomes.
Using food resilience as a practical lens, she will unpack why well-intentioned solutions often fail when they address symptoms rather than underlying system dynamics, and how we can shift our thinking from fixing individual problems to strengthening the health of the whole system.
This session offers practical insights for anyone interested in creating resilient communities, regenerative food systems and a future where both people and nature can thrive together.
YOUR SPEAKERS
Environmental scientist and transdisciplinary researcher.