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2020 CRC Research Showcase round-up

December 15, 2020   /   Featured, Forums, News, Participants, Projects

On 2 December 2020, the CRC hosted its first online Research Showcase, highlighting projects approved, in progress and completed under our three Research Programs (RPs) over the CRC’s first full year of operation.

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Greenbio teams up with QUT experts to address vertical farming challenges

November 25, 2020   /   News, Participants, Projects

Agri-biotech firm Greenbio Group has teamed up with automation experts at Queensland University of Technology’s Centre for Robotics to develop novel next-gen growing systems for vertically grown crops.

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Meet Priti Krishna: sustainable cropping expert

October 27, 2020   /   News, Participants, Profiles

For Priti Krishna, Foundation Chair of Sustainable Agriculture at Western Sydney University and lead researcher on the CRC’s Blueberry nutritional optimisation project, it’s not just about growing better crops; it’s about growing crops better.

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FoodSwitch Connect: enabling healthy food procurement for businesses and food-service providers across Sydney’s south-west

September 28, 2020   /   News, Participants, Projects

With support from Liverpool City Council, The George Institute for Global Health will extend its successful FoodSwitch platform to include food-service providers from the Liverpool area south-west of Sydney, helping event organisers make healthier food choices.

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Meet Dr Elaine Holmes: Microbiome-diet expert

September 24, 2020   /   News, Participants, Profiles

This brilliant scientist was the first in her family to attend university. But for Elaine Holmes, world-leading metabolic scientist, WA Premier’s Research Fellow and recent recipient of a prestigious Australian Laureate ARC Fellowship, academia proved a natural fit.

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Meet Sagadevan Mundree: tropical pulses expert

August 26, 2020   /   News, Participants, Profiles

Queensland University of Technology Professor Sagadevan Mundree is an expert in the fields of biochemistry and cell biology, agricultural and industrial biotechnology, and tropical crops – notably pulses. He also loves to hike.

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Meet Sami Kara: advanced manufacturing expert

July 29, 2020   /   News, Participants, Profiles

For UNSW’s Professor Sami Kara, sustainable manufacturing is a key to future prosperity and a cleaner, greener planet. Scientica Education Fellow and Director of Vertically Integrated Projects in the University of New South Wales’ Faculty of Engineering, Sami isn’t one to silo […]

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Commercialising native rice for Indigenous enterprise development: agronomy and value-adding

July 9, 2020   /   News, Participants, Projects

A four-year, multi-disciplinary project under the CRC’s Research Program 1 will help ‘prepare the ground’ for commercialising Australian native rice, at same time creating new opportunities for indigenous enterprise.

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UNSW Professor Sami Kara: agrifood supply chains and the ‘bullwhip effect’

May 19, 2020   /   COVID-19, News, Participants, Projects

Inefficiencies in supply chains are exacerbated by disruptions to demand, such as the recent panic buying at supermarkets worldwide following COVID-19-related shutdown announcements. UNSW’s Professor Sami Kara explains how the ‘bullwhip effect’ typically resulting from sudden changes in demand impacts […]

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Safety, streamlining and scaling up: Sprout Stack pivots to a new normal

April 27, 2020   /   COVID-19, Featured, News, Participants

It’s business not-quite-as-usual under COVID-19 restrictions, but Sydney-based start-up Sprout Stack is adapting to the new normal with increased hygiene and safety protocols and forward-looking ‘remote’ research.

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