KRM - Kingston Rural Management was started in 1970 by Dr. John Kingston, a widely experienced and qualified veterinarian, to manage his own businesses, and to provide agribusiness management services to absentee owners.
In the 1970's, KRM managed up to 15 significant agribusinesses simultaneously, employing up to 100 people. Additionally it managed Kingstons' Pharmacies, a large pharmacy aggregation. Steadily, demands for John Kingston to act as an agribusiness consultant within tropical and subtropical Australia, and overseas, increased. Thus KRM assumed the management responsibility for John Kingston's consulting career.
Environmental Management
Policy
National policy planning for sustainable livestock industries including fish producttion, both wild caught and cultured, in Laos 1990 (Asian Development Bank). National, technical, social, land tenure and environmental policies for the export beef industry in Vanuatu, 1968, folloing extensive survey and consulation with groups with widely varying interests (AusAid).Strategy
Detailed strategies, plans and costings for livestock and aqyaculture developemtn in various countries. An integrated watershed stufy in three environmentally degrading provinces in Northern Laos, 1992 (World Bank).Projects
Project planning: for a culturally and environmentally sensitive development condifering the complex mixed farming systems in the outer islands in Tonga, 1992 (IFAD); for the growth of a sustainable cattle industry at smallholder level in Western Samoa, 1992 (IFAD).Design
Planning and costing of six environmentally sensitive projects in Laos, 1987 (UNDP); of environmentally acceptable feedlots in SE Asia 1991.Review
Project review, replaning and introduction of the triple bottom line approach: in Bangladesh, 1980 (AIDAB); in Fiji to accomodate new government legislation; 1986 (AIDAB); of 10 state worned enterprises in Laos to allow for new economic policies and provatisation, 1990 (World Bank).Corporate
Planning for the renovation of company rural assets and staff motivation - 225,000 cattle - considering aboriginal land rights, land tenure, the environment, and the development of a mining port.Costing
Detailed costing for: development in three environmentally degraded provinces in Laos, 1992 (World Bank); for the importation and quarantine of potentially diseased cattle from East Africa for a consortium between CSIRO and graziers, 1988.Implementation
Detailed implementation: of the 10 year development plan for Boonooroo Beeg Co. in an environmentally sensitive region; and for 15 farms in south east Queensland for absentee owners with monthly budget reconciliations and physical reports. Triple bottom line planning.Liaison
INtensive regular formal and informal consultation with al affected government ministries in communist Laos (1990) resulting in the evolution of free enterprise and environmental policies that were accepted and implemented. (Asian Velopement Bank). Discussions with all sectors of the Australian beef industry (1988) to facilitate a introduction of TQM as the best way of protecting human and environmental health and market access (AMLROC).Negotiation
Patient discussion led to the acceptance of policies and strategies by the different groups - in Vanuatu officials, French investors, Australian investors, indigenous landholders, NGO's and Japanese processors, leading to the unified, enviornmentaly sensitive export meat industry in Vanuatu and secure foreign investment, 1986 (ADAB).Legislation
Evaluation and revision of the animal quarantine legislation in Fiji, 1986 (AIDAB); animal health laws in Vanuatu (AIDAB); feedlot protocols to protect the environment and human amenity in Queensland; meat inspection protocols in Australia; and chemical use on Australian farms.Capabilites
Land and district capability studies: ni Laos 1987, (UNDP); in Queensland 1983, 82, 81, 78, 65 as the prerequisite to sensible and environmentally sensitive project planning (Corportate Clients); Government department capability in Western Samoa 1992 (IFAD); National Research & Diagnostic Laboratory Capability in Indonesia, 1996 (AusAid).Impact Studies
Environmental impact planning for a central Queensland cold mine, 1984; for intensive animal industries in SE Queensland, 1972 to 1989; and valuation of mining compensation claims in Queensland, 1983.Litigation
Environmental itigation qork concerned iwht intensive animal industries in SE Queensland considering prtential environmental damage and loss of amenity, 1988, 1989.Resources
Fish and river baseline resource surveys using a repid appraoosal methodology in Queensland and Northern Territory: 1991, 89, 86, 85, 83 and 1980. Results were published by Dr. H Midgley and CSIRO.Protection
Environmental protection plan for the quality of the Dawson River from a saline coal mine, 1981/82.Rehabilitation
Environmental rehabilitation planning for 55,000 square kilometres of degrading semi-arid grazing aldn in Queensland and Northern Territory, 1981.Health
Public health studies: concerned wiht use of organochlorides in rural industries, 1987, and the prevention of spread of zoonoses from uninformed meat processing and ineffective inspection, 1988.Awareness
From working and diving throughout the Pacific and Asia I am acutely aware of the repidity of enviornmental and resource degradtion resulting from uncontrolled used of marine and land resources.
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