Q&A: Nicole McNaughton on cluster gains and growing painsThe CEO of South East Queensland-based Food & Agribusiness Network talks about inspiring, growing and sustaining an agrifood industry cluster in regional Australia.
Future Food Systems – Collaborating to foster agrifood clusters across Australia Collaborative Future Food Systems projects and initiatives are providing powerful tools to help establish and promote successful, sustainable regional agrifood clusters in areas of comparative advantage across Australia.
Melville Park farm: a value-adding storyDavid Doepel and wife Barbara Connell are co-custodians of historic Melville Park Farm, where they’re collaborating with researchers and local businesses to add value to primary produce.
Future foods facility to fast-track new product development in WAMurdoch University is the first Western Australian university to partner with the state government in a new commercial food factory that will help food and beverage businesses develop value-added food products for local consumption and global export. The Sustainable Innovative Food Technologies (SIFT) Centre – the result of a WA Government partnership with Future Food…
For Food’s Sake Summit tours: SIFT opening and Melville Park farmGuests who joined our recent day tours of the new SIFT facility at FIPWA and Melville Park farm glimpsed the collaborative future of food innovation and value-adding in WA
PhD student pitches impress FFS Shark TankFive Future Food Systems-backed PhD students pitched their research to a 'Shark Tank'-style panel of experts at the annual Networking Night. Which was the most convincing?
Angus Dingley, PhD student: Improving warm-zone raspberry cultivationUNE's Angus Dingley is exploring how temperature extremes affect pollination in polytunnels to help growers produce more and better berries.
Fiona Simson departs NFF to represent Aussie farmers on global stageThe National Farmers’ Federation’s first female President stepped down on 25 October to take on a global advocacy role as a Director of the World Farmers’ Organisation.
Queensland’s largest Asian mushroom grower joins Future Food SystemsIn September, Future Food Systems welcomed Sunshine-Coast-based sustainable exotic mushroom grower Kenon Corporation into its consortium.
Future Food Systems represented at events around the worldIn July. Future Food Systems staff, research leads and PhDs represented FFS, our projects and our mission at conferences and agrifood events nationwide.
Mazadul Islam, PhD student: Making glasshouse fertigation more sustainableFFS PhD student Mazadul Islam is working with experts in two nations to find more sustainable ways to fertigate indoor vegetable crops.
LLEAF launches vast ‘solar lab’ on Sydney’s Northern BeachesFFS partner LLEAF has opened a large-scale ‘solar laboratory’ to trial its light-spectrum-shifting, crop yield-boosting agricultural films in commercial glasshouse conditions.
First national map of Australia’s protected cropping structures launchedLaunched in mid-July, Australia’s first national map of PC systems enables accurate yield forecasting and speedy, targeted response to natural disasters and biosecurity threats.
FFS team visits UNE and Costa’s 40ha glasshouseFuture Food Systems headed to NSW's Northern Tablelands in June, visiting University of New England and Costa Group's state-of-the-art tomato-production glasshouse.
FFS PhDs tour National Vegetable Protected Cropping CentreOn 14 June, FFS staff and PhDs visited Western Sydney University Hawkesbury campus and the $7m National Vegetable Protected Cropping Centre.
Sumitra Saha, PhD student: Exploring heat-resistant potato microbiomes for sustainable potato production in a changing climateA grades in high-school science turned into a career path for Sumitra Saha, who recently joined Murdoch University as a PhD student on the'Novel microbiome technology' project team.
Future of food: what’s on the menu in 2050From insects to cultured meat, nothing is off the table when it comes to feeding the world’s growing population, says UNSW professor Johannes le Coutre.
A fresh R&D agenda for crops grown under coverA new, stakeholder-set R&D strategy aims to address industry challenges and support smart, sustainable growth in Australia’s protected cropping sector.
Optimising CO2 use to boost tomato yield, cut inputsCosta Group is teaming up with UNE, NSW DPI and ANU scientists, and FFS to help it reduce carbon use and increase yields in its Guyra tomato glasshouses.
Meet Onoriode Coast: Abiotic crop stress expertCoast’s expertise in crop responses to environmental stress has helped growers globally. Now he’s lending it to leading grower Costa.
