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Last month, CEAT staff Alex and Pia attended the Women in Crop Science (WiCS) Coffee event at CSIRO. The WiCS initiative is the brainchild of CEAT fellow Alison Bentley who brought it to Australia while visiting ANU from her base in Mexico. It aims to create further opportunities for promoting
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CEAT Hub member Gondwana Genomics are excited to announce that they will be undertaking a new research project for Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA). FWPA have announced that they will be funding 10 projects worth more than $11 million to grow research capacity in local Australian Forestry. Over a
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The next decade is an exciting and challenging time for agri-food, with great opportunities for Australia if we can support our farmers to survive and thrive in an increasingly volatile world. A food economist with experience across research, innovation and commercialisation, newly-appointed CEAT fellow Graham Smith, says we need to
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On Tuesday 5 July, CEAT had the pleasure of hosting Dr Maggie Mwathi and Kathryn Pagler from Plant Health Australia (PHA) to present a biosecurity workshop to ANU agriculture students at the Fenner School of Environment & Society. This was part of our partnership with PHA to create industry experiences
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I have spent most of July in the UK and Europe, visiting a range of institutions that conduct research and development (R&D) targeting productivity growth in crops. This included a visit to BARN4, an agri-tech incubator in Cambridge, UK. BARN4 provides a place for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to
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As we approach the end of June, I have been packing my bags in preparation for my first overseas trip since 2019. Next week, I will be visiting folk in the UK, starting with the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB). NIAB is a non-profit entity established over 100 years
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Article by Rebecca Craine Earlier this month, CEAT Research Translation Initiative (RTI) team members, Vivienne Wells and Rebecca Craine, attended the Digital Agri-food Summit in Wagga Wagga to connect with colleagues and explore opportunities and innovations in the digital agriculture space. This summit explored a range of topics in the
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Earlier this year at the Future of Ag-Innovation panel discussion hosted by CEAT, Christine Mulhearn from the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment spoke briefly about the role of supply chains and consumer demand in the agriculture industry. While Christine spoke of the opportunity people’s desire for specific luxury
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Following on from the Drought Resilience workshop hosted by CEAT in April, researchers, policy makers and industry representatives gathered again on 3 June to identify what a revitalised Australian agri-innovation system might look like. Australia’s existing agri-innovation system focuses primarily on incremental short to medium term changes in the system.