Blogs and opinion pieces

After a month advancing her studies at World Vegetable Center headquarters in Shanhua, Taiwan, on her last day, Shanice Van Haeften speaks about her experience.

QAAFI PhD candidate Sukirtha Srivarathan talks about her long anticipated trip to Broome and Darwin, to view the native halophytes she studied in her PhD in their rightful habitat. It was a long overdue trip, delayed by the shutdowns caused by the global COVID 19 pandemic.

Staff and students from the Uniquely Australian Foods centre were excited to welcome fifteen Indigenous year 11 and 12 school students from Acacia Ridge’s Aboriginal and Islander Independent Community School,  ‘Murri School’, for an engaging and hands-on day.

After being diagnosed with Stage 3 aggressive breast cancer, Bogi received support not only from her friends, but from the surrounding community and the health sector - with emotional support from charities who work with cancer patients. With a new lease of life, she is driven to not only create awareness about breast cancer, but also to raise as much money as she can to give back to the charities that helped her through the toughest challenge of her life.

The world’s most popular banana variety “Cavendish” is not the result of a breeding program but a banana variety found by a prehistoric farmer in a rainforest in Asia.

A journey to Australia’s red centre changed me forever. I visited Alice Springs for my first industry placement as part of my PhD research on Australian native wattle seeds. 

Comment piece by QAAFI's Centre for Crop Science Director Prof Ian Godwin published in Farm Weekly. "We hosted the family Christmas dinner this year. For some reason - maybe because we are a bunch of scientists and engineers - we started talking about the mega-trends of the future, such as hydrogen cars, automation and carbon neutrality."

Seaweed is being consumed daily in China, Japan, and Korea, whereas in westernized countries it is mostly known as wraps for sushi. The weed from the ocean is far underestimated by our population and has many promising opportunities to being part of the daily westernized diet.

Read about the journey that the QAAFI Student Association took to hold a three-part webinar series to talk to experts from academia and industry about securing food for a growing population with a focus on sustainability.