Takeaways from GFI’s Asia-Pacific Alternative Protein Summit 2020
There are useful insights aplenty in the public talk sessions and post-Summit blogs from global alt-protein advocate The Good Food Institute’s inaugural APAC-focused summit.
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Federal Budget backs a food-and-region-led recovery
The 2020-2021 Budget has much to offer Australia’s farmers and food producers, providing funds for major infrastructure, regional manufacturing, better connectivity and more, says our peak farming body.
Panel discussion: How the New Norm is Impacting the Food and Beverage Factory of the future
In this panel discussion hosted by Food&Beverage Industry News, keynote speakers from industry discuss COVID-19’s likely impact on food and beverage manufacturing going forward.
FIAL’s Program 2030 set to transform Australia’s food and ag sector
FIAL has brought together experts and decision-makers from across the food and agribusiness value chain, including Future Food Systems CRC, to contribute to its Roadmap to 2030.
Dairy and plant proteins: both natural emulsifiers pass muster, find UNSW food scientists
With plant-based food and beverage formulations trending, UNSW food scientists’ comparison of the emulsifying properties of dairy and plant proteins – or a mix of the two – is timely.
More fun with fungi: Fable Food Co turns mushrooms into new, nutrition-packed products
Keen to differentiate themselves in the plant-proteins space, three entrepreneurial Aussies – a farmer, a chef and a former fashion-business owner – turned to fungi as a nutrition-packed alt-meat ingredient. That was just the start.
Fixing the world’s broken food system post-pandemic
Rebuilding the global economy in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic offers us the chance to revamp our dysfunctional food systems, making them more resilient, sustainable, healthy and equitable, say three IMF bloggers.
Genentech and a ‘new era of personalised health care’
Genentech is using big data, digital health tools and sophisticated analytics to improve individuals’ access to ‘life-altering, biomarker-driven therapies’, opening the door to safer, more effective medical treatments.
CSIRO to join Aerotropolis’s innovation cluster
Australia’s national science organisation, CSIRO, has announced that it will be moving several of its divisions to the Western City & Aerotropolis Authority’s planned Agribusiness Precinct, to be sited alongside the new, curfew-free international airport.
Western Sydney’s Aerotropolis to gain an integrated logistics hub
Western Sydney Aerotropolis’s planned Integrated Logistics Hub, part of the new Agribusiness Precinct, will deliver ‘a multi-modal supply chain solution for the Aerotropolis, Greater Sydney and regional NSW’, says WCAA.