Language, Literacy and Numeracy Program: Submission
The NFF’s 21 July 2008 submission highlights that rural and regional school students have lower literacy and numeracy outcomes than city students and fewer go on to study at university – yet, as modern farming involves high-tech equipment, science and skills, proficiencies in language, literacy and numeracy are essential.
Apply ‘food crisis blowtorch’ to leaders at Doha talks
PRESSURE must be put on world leaders to actually do something about the global food crisis, which has seen riots in poorer countries going without food, and huge price hikes in affluent countries, like Australia,” National Farmers Federation (NFF) President David Crombie said ahead of his trade mission to Geneva this week to re-ignite World […]