AgriFutures Australia has released a progressive new plan to grow, innovate and drive the productivity and sustainability of Australian agriculture.
Encompassed in the recently released AgriFutures Research and Innovation Strategic Plan, the AgriFutures 16:5:5 Roadmap has been developed together with AgriFutures’ levy payers and industry partners.
The Roadmap outlines sixteen priorities in five focus areas over five years. The plan is consciously centred around driving value for AgriFutures’ thirteen levied industries, as well as delivering programs that drive innovation and address priority challenges among the broader agriculture sector.
While the olive levy and its funded R&D is managed by Hort Innovation, and olives are therefore no longer one of the industries encompassed by AgriFutures (previously RIRDC), a number of the programs and their outcomes will also no doubt be of interest – and in the long-term, of benefit – to olive producers.
Download the Plan here.
About AgriFutures Australia
AgriFutures Australia’s focus is on growing the long-term prosperity of Australian rural industries and communities through:
- research, development and extension programs for industries that do not have their own Research & Development Corporation (RDC);
- programs that proactively address sector-level challenges and opportunities including research to inform national policy issues, tech innovation and adoption;
- research and analysis to understand and address important issues on the horizon for Australian agriculture;
- identifying and capitalising on global opportunities and challenges, and encouraging the uptake of new technologies to strengthen Australian agriculture’s position and future growth through evokeAG. and growAG;
- research, development and extension programs that enable emerging and growing industries to reach new markets and address their barriers to acceleration;
- initiatives that attract capable people into careers in agriculture, build the capability of future rural leaders, and support change makers and thought leaders. Programs include the AgriFutures Horizon Scholarship and the AgriFutures Rural Women’s Award.
Find out more here.
