CSIRO’s Innovation Enabled Growth program for SME leaders: apply now
CSIRO is offering free entry to its new, online Innovation Enabled Growth program to a select group of small-to-medium enterprise leaders in the agrifood space.
CSIRO is offering free entry to its new, online Innovation Enabled Growth program to a select group of small-to-medium enterprise leaders in the agrifood space.
Sydney-based inventor David Soo has grown vanilla worth $600,000 in a custom-made high-tech geodome in which everything can be controlled remotely via smartphone.
“It is cellular agriculture that will enable us one day to eat meat without having to kill an animal,” says recently arrived UNSW Professor Johannes le Coutre, who will lead the university’s research into this exciting emerging field.
Remember that green-movement mantra, ‘reduce, re-use, recycle’? Now, US-based recycling firm TerraCycle has launched a globally available platform, the Loop™, for companies employing reuseable packaging.
In a food-insecure future of climatic extremes, sustainable crops with high nutritional and market value are the ones we will likely turn to. And according to recent research, macadamias are up there with the best of them.
The supply-chain disruption precipitated by the pandemic shutdown may provide the motivation needed to reinvigorate urban agriculture, contends protected cropping expert Oula Ghannoum.
Australia’s wine industry, keen to maintain its ‘clean, green’ image; is working with the Fight Food Waste CRC in a bid to turn ‘waste product’ grape marc into high-value nutriceutical grape seed extract.
The COVID-19 crisis is forcing food suppliers to adapt: a case in point is dairy producer-supplier Riverina Fresh, which has turned obstacle into opportunity.
Baked beans are making a pandemic comeback, and health experts are pleased, touting the nutritional credentials of the humble pulse-based product.
Across the world, demand is on the rise for high-value spice crops such as caraway and cumin. This is good news for those looking to establish a new export-focused industry in northern Australia.