Australia’s Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) ‘deserves ‘valid criticism from farmers as their main aim is to increase corporate profits from farmers, not for farmers’. Cartoons for the campaign to question the GRDC model by the Network of Concerned Farmers.
My sister and her partner live on Kangaroo Island, South Australia. She sketched this idea, which I drew up, to show ‘the team’: the local farmers, neighbours and firefighters who defended their bit of the Island for 10 days during the bushfires. They will each get a copy.
An adaption of a SA Recovery diagram for Horse SA. Visit Horse SA for information on horse health post-bushfires, land care and preparing for the next emergency:
Hundreds of thousands of native fish dead: Menindee mass fish death. The Darling River, with no water flow and algal blooms, dies along with them. Large cotton farm irrigators up river to blame? Wider mismanagement and corruption? It’ll blow over once the smell has cleared … maybe …
A series of safety posters for Horse SA. Final design work by Neumotion (Mick Kneebone).
Edible Adelaide poster illustrating Natural Resources Adelaide & Mount Lofty Ranges’ Edible Adelaide report – ‘cultivating a shared vision for a more edible Greater Adelaide‘. There are links to the report and an A4 300dpi file of the poster on that page. More background on the development of the report is on the Sustainable Communities South Australia Inc site here.
For more information see Horse SA or Dung Beetle Solutions.
Rapid appraisal of emerging issues in the oil palm sector in Palawan Island (The Philippines): Environment, livelihoods and corporate accountability, was a scoping report produced by a collaboration between Palawan State University and the Stockholm Environment Institute. It aimed ‘to feed the ‘rich picture’ that emerges from the preliminary results back to people in Palawan’.
As part of the feeding back the results these three diagrams were developed to be used in presentations. There was a lot of ‘rich picture’ to juggle onto each page.
Simon Kneebone - cartoonist and illustrator 