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Published 21 Feb 2023
Feedback on a range of animal welfare and other practices in relation to market requirements and considerations for trade access can be confronting to Australian farmers who have been performing these practices with the best intentions of animal welfare and environmental protection in mind. So why is there such a…
Published 21 Dec 2022
To dismiss the backyard tinkerer in this regard is to dismiss hundreds of years of Australian innovation, many of which have led to extraordinary breakthroughs. It is here where inventiveness, in its simplest, perhaps rawest form, is a low-end sign that value-adding is not a pipe dream for Australian agriculture.
Published 21 Dec 2022
Circular economy (CE) and bioeconomy are overlapping concepts that are receiving attention across various levels of government, industry, and academia. Interest is driven in pursuit of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and an understanding that we cannot feed the growing global population and protect the planet with the current,…
Published 21 Dec 2022
Value-creation exists in a myriad of forms. The question is whether value-adding programs that deliver impact towards our $100 billion target in the next eight years are simply a ‘pipe dream’ or whether it is worth pursuing at scale to dramatically enhance Australian jobs, our reputation and our ability to…
Published 21 Dec 2022
Agriculture, the wider industry, and our policy makers need to quickly come to an understanding that not all value is measured in dollars and cents. For us in Australian agriculture, increasingly we are in a battle for hearts and minds, not for cheque books and shareholdings. The good-will and heartfelt…
Published 21 Dec 2022
Minimising wastage and maximising efficient use of resources is not a new concept to the Australian agricultural sector. It is in the pursuit of these concepts that many innovations have arisen. However, Australia generates 74 million tonnes of waste each year, including 7.6 million tonnes of food and 227,000 tonnes…
Published 21 Dec 2022
Applying a circular economy lens to the more traditional linear agriculture production systems offers a myriad of opportunities for reducing food loss and waste across the supply chain. Horticulture is a key focus for reducing food loss and waste. This paper uses the principles of circularity to show their application…
Published 21 Dec 2022
Agriculture, fisheries and forestry produce a significant amount and diversity of on farm waste, with waste disposal often involving environmentally harmful practices (such as burning, on-farm burying and dumping), landfill and inefficient use of resources. Primary producers want to improve waste management on their farms and in their industries and…
Published 21 Dec 2022
It has been ambitiously projected that the value of Australian agriculture by 2030 will be $100 billion dollars. One of the key ways in which this goal can be achieved is via value creation across all the agricultural sectors. This paper examines the feasibility of this goal in the context…
Published 21 Dec 2022
The development of circular economies is imperative in the path towards a more sustainable future. Agricultural economies – like many other economic sectors – still operate largely in a linear mode, particularly when only parts of agricultural value chains are considered. For example, most farm businesses purchase inputs such as…
Published 21 Dec 2022
This year’s John Ralph Essay Competition posed the question: is value-adding a pipe dream for Australian agriculture? The relevance of this question was elevated by the unexpected and unwelcome combination of a global pandemic with geopolitical disruption which focused the attention of policy-makers on supply chain security across the economy, and…
Published 20 Dec 2022
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…