David Kemp

Professor Kemp graduated from Sydney University with BScAgr (Hons) and MScAgr and completed a PhD through University of Western Australia. He was Principal Research Scientist with NSW Agriculture (now NSW Department of Primary Industries) until 1999, when he was appointed the Foundation Chair in Farming Systems at the University of Sydney. He was appointed to the same position with Charles Sturt University, Orange when the Orange Campus was formally transferred between the two Universities.

Professor Kemp has a background in agronomy, plant physiology, applied ecology and the management of livestock grazing systems, with his research focus aimed at developing the applied discipline of sustainable farming; the management and integration of soils, plants, animals, economics and sociology into viable, sustainable enterprises.

Professor Kemp has worked in the subtropics and temperate zones on pastures, grasslands, crops (wheat), forage and livestock production systems. The aim of recent work has been to devise cost-effective, sustainable management practices for livestock production from degraded grasslands, both in western China and Australia.