Marking 40 years of Pakistan-Australia agricultural collaboration, Australian High Commissioner, Neil Hawkins and Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) CEO, Professor Wendy Umberger launched bus art depicting ways to save water and improve food security. Public buses will carry cartoons created by Australian alumnus and renowned cartoonist NigarNazar, which convey messages to raise community awareness of simple practices to achieve sustainable agriculture and address the impacts of climate change including water scarcity. The messages reflect Australian and Pakistani efforts to improve Pakistan’s agricultural sector over the last four decades.
In launching the project, High Commissioner Hawkins said: “For 40 years, Australia has stood beside Pakistan, working to tackle some of the most pressing challenges in agriculture and water management.
This bus art initiative captures the essence of that collaboration—using creativity to inspire action and connect people in rural and urban Punjab.”
ACIAR CEO, Prof Wendy Umberger said: “We are honoured to celebrate this milestone through such a creative and impactful initiative that reaches beyond the fields and into the daily lives of Pakistanis.
