Empowering smarter food consumption with sensorsBy creating colour-changing sensors that detect spoilage in real time, nanotech experts at UNSW hope to change the way we consume everyday food products, reducing food waste.
CRC report: Scoping the protected cropping sectorThe first in a series of CRC-commissioned reports on this fast-growing horticultural sector investigates target crops and technologies for commercial protected cropping in Australian conditions.
World-first clear solar glass greenhouse opens on Murdoch University campusThe world's first clear solar glass greenhouse is up and running at Murdoch University's grains research precinct. Renowned geneticist Professor Chengdao Li and his team will use the facility to develop new breeding technologies for use in commercial cropping.
Smart Glass and LLEAF: novel spectra-shifting tech to boost energy-efficiency, crop growth and yield under coverA new CRC project is comparing two novel light-spectra-shifting films on energy-efficiency and crop productivity in greenhouse-grown lettuce.
5 future forces set to disrupt Australia’s agrifood sector over the next decadeA new report pinpoints five ‘future forces’ likely to impact Australia's agriculture sector and agrifood supply chains over the next 10 years, extrapolating seven plausible 2031 scenarios as food for thought and for constructive, change-oriented conversations.
Meet Wen Hu: IoT expertFor UNSW Associate Professor and networked embedded sensor expert Wen Hu, automated farms supplying ‘smart cities’ with premium fresh food are the way of the future. And IoT systems are paving the way to this new, networked reality.
2020 CRC Research Showcase round-upOn 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.
