Last week, I attended evokeAG in Brisbane, along with Anne-Sophie Dielen and four ANU students. evokeAG is an annual event where industry, government and research institution stakeholders come together to explore and debate innovations in the agrifood sector.

The dairy industry is worth close to one trillion dollars globally. But with $150 billion worth of dairy wasted each year before it gets to the consumer, its contribution to greenhouse gas emissions is unnecessarily high.

As 2024 comes to a close, it gives me great pride to reflect on the past 12 months and what the Agrifood Innovation Institute and wider Australian National University community have achieved.

It was a great honour to welcome FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu and Deputy Director General Beth Bechdol to the Agrifood Innovation Institute this week.

In recent weeks, there has been widespread media coverage of the financial difficulties facing the Australian National University.

Research has arguably reached peak co. Collaborate, cooperate, codesign, coproduce, cocreate. But what do the terms mean in practice? How do we embed them, rather than just attach them as labels onto standard ways of doing business?

The startup world is not an easy one, so it’s with much pride and admiration that we celebrate the continuing success of our Agrifood Hub members.

The Agrifood Innovation Institute is inviting ANU students to apply for sponsorship to attend the country’s biggest agrifood tech event evokeAG in 2025.

This month the AFII team has connected with a range of international agencies who share our mission to improve the profitability, sustainability and equitability of agrifood systems, both nationally and globally.