Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation

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  • Meet The Plant Scientists Preventing A Global Beer Shortage

    Meet The Plant Scientists Preventing A Global Beer Shortage

    Published on: 14 May 2019
    A new international study found that yields of barley, the main ingredient in beer, could fall up to 17 percent during the periods of extreme drought and heat expected in coming years. The yield declines could cause the price of beer to skyrocket or even lead to a beer shortage.
  • Digital technologies take farmers to market

    Digital technologies take farmers to market

    Published on: 30 October 2019
    Tapping into a technology already widely used for other reasons is one of the ways a leading agricultural company is helping to improve the livelihood of its smallholder farmers.
  • Role for livestock to reduce human malnutrition

    Role for livestock to reduce human malnutrition

    Published on: 23 October 2019
    Ending malnutrition globally is high on philanthropist Bill Gates’ ‘wish list’ and improving livestock productivity will be crucial in achieving that goal.
  • A sensory experience of Australian flavour

    A sensory experience of Australian flavour

    11 November 2019 6:30pm–7:30pm
     
    in TropAg2019 Week
    The sensory experience of food and wine flavour has an important influence on consumer acceptance or rejection. A flavour's signature is impacted by the environment in which the food was grown and harvested. Understanding how place-of-origin influences food quality allows Australian companies to brand their products and produce with a point-of-difference, based on flavour, that inextricably ties the food to provenance.
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  • CRCNA gears up for TropAg Conference

    Northern Australia gears up for TropAg Conference

    Published on: 15 October 2019
    The latest trends, opportunities and critical barriers to development across some of northern Australia’s key agricultural sectors will be under the spotlight at next month’s International Tropical Agriculture Conference (TropAg) in Brisbane.
  • Helping plants to fight the food war

    Helping plants to fight the food war

    Published on: 15 October 2019
    Tropical agriculture presents humanity with its most pressing food security challenges – but it is also the world region that harbours some of the most exciting opportunities, as farmers and scientists step up to the challenge of ensuring there is enough to feed tomorrow’s grandchildren.
  • Changing the scales of food production to avert crisis

    Changing the scales of food production to avert crisis

    Published on: 10 October 2019
    Global food production is beginning to feel the impacts of climate change with declines in crop yields.
  • Researchers from the ‘hot zone’ call for a food revolution

    Researchers from the ‘hot zone’ call for a food revolution

    Published on: 2 October 2019
    Agricultural scientists are setting the stage for a food revolution – a reconfiguration of the way the world farms, which they see as essential to the future of food security.
  • Australia’s livestock producers turning data into dollars

    Australia’s livestock producers turning data into dollars

    Published on: 1 October 2019
    Livestock producers risk drowning in data, but digitalisation is helping industry innovators gain a strategic advantage in transforming their business and competing in key markets.

  • "Digital horticulture" will push industry ahead, says UQ professor

    Published on: 4 December 2017
    There is an exciting green tinge on the horizon of innovation. It's a green glow from horticulture that excites University of Queensland professor Neena Mitter.

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