FFS hosts successful For Food’s Sake Summit
Our in-person Summit saw more than 120 stakeholders from agrifood, research and government sectors gather at Murdoch University and 6HEAD Perth to engage in spirited discussions around how we can collaborate to create more healthy, resilient, sustainable, productive and profitable food systems. For those of you who didn’t make it, here’s our wrap-up. Read more
Sustainable Innovative Food Technologies centre opens at FIPWA
On Friday 23 February, For Food’s Sake Summit attendees looked on as the high-tech food manufacturing equipment was switched on in the new, multi-million-dollar Sustainable Innovative Food Technologies (SIFT) centre at the Food Innovation Precinct Western Australia, with WA Minister for Agriculture, The Hon. Jackie Jarvis, and FFS Chair Fiona Simson in attendance. Read more
Lending a (robotic) hand to banana growers
Hort Innovation and AHS are backing an exciting FFS project with robotics experts at Queensland University of Technology that aims to automate the labour-intensive job of de-handing bananas. It’s a solution that will benefit growers worldwide – including our cluster partners in banana-growing regions on the Coffs and Sunshine coasts. Read more
FFS PhD student’s findings set to help indoor growers automate crop-height estimation
Western Sydney University student Namal Jayasuriya, part of a collaborative FFS-backed research team, has developed an inexpensive automated method for estimating plant height, a proxy for vegetative growth – a solution that will help indoor growers automate crop management, slashing labour costs. A paper on his findings has been published in Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. Read more