Made & Grown – The Future of Food

Our food system is changing. Innovation and necessity are driving an evolution of how we produce food, in both new and traditional industries.

Australia is well-placed to build on its agricultural excellence to leverage global demand for more protein, functional foods and innovative consumer products. Through the application of biotechnologies like cell cultivation, precision fermentation, plant molecular farming and synthetic biology, Australia has the potential to capitalise on a multi-billion dollar opportunity and become a global biomanufacturing leader.

Whether Australia can realise this opportunity will depend on the ability to grow the sector in Australia through a combination of: building familiarity and trust in the technologies, growing public and private investment, and the right policy environment.

Made & Grown will showcase these technologies to support legislators, policymakers and regulators to understand the technologies, applications and products that are changing how we produce food and how they could shape a resilient food system.