December 2022 Insights

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Published 20 Dec 2022

Advocacy ESG Global Precision Agriculture Sustainability

Vol. 19 | No. 4 | December 2022

The competitive race for sustainability outputs

Competition to deliver sustainability outputs in agrifood supply chains is intense. Companies – whether they be retailers, food manufacturers, processors, or traders – are increasingly setting targets to improve sustainability in the supply chains they operate in. Delivering on those targets and reporting on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria is now an important factor in market attractiveness, so when company ESG targets extend through the supply chain, market attractiveness becomes intimately connected to whole of supply chain sustainability factors.

FEATURE: The competitive race for sustainability outputs

Published 20 Dec 2022

This article explores some of the sustainability pressures observed in agrifood supply chains during a recent visit to the United States (US). Many farmers there are working in environments where all the other parts of the supply chains they operate in are competing to deliver (through creation or acquisition) sustainability…

ESG Methane Sustainability

ROUNDTABLE WRAP-UP: Shaping the future

Published 20 Dec 2022

“You can shape the future.” – This was the title of the keynote speech by Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, and Emergency Management, Senator Murray Watt, at the Australian Farm Institute’s inaugural national ESG Roundtable at the Australian National Gallery on 18 October 2022 Canberra. This was an outstanding…

ESG Roundtable

DISCOVERIES: Global Methane Pledge: what might it mean for Australian agriculture?

Published 20 Dec 2022

There’s been a lot of hot air about the potential impacts of mandated methane targets on the profitability of Australian agriculture. The radical shift in climate action policy which came with the change of Government earlier this year has raised understandable unease about possible penalties for farmers. But how valid…

GHG Methane Sustainability