Food security Archives

Here’s the seafood Australians eat (and what we should be eating)

Over 85 per cent of seafood caught in Australia is sustainable. However, just because a fish is sustainably caught, it doesn’t make it the most nutritious and healthy option – and vice versa. We've compared the two to see what seafood is both sustainable and nutritious.

Our food detectives are on the case

Just as a fingerprint can identify a person, our food detectives are working to stamp out food fraud by using isotopes to trace food from the paddock to the plate.

Farming

The Midas lunch: we fed prawns gold and sifted through the mess, for science

The secret to better prawn health could be in their digestive system, and feeding them gold could help to provide the answer.

Farming

Global strategies needed to combat antibiotic and pesticide resistance

Resistance to antibiotics and pesticides is rising at alarming rates. Global strategies, such as those developed for Australia’s cotton industry, to maintain ‘susceptible’ insects, are key in our fight against resistance.

Healthier rice is extra nice

Everybody loves rice. Everybody loves to be healthy. We’ve discovered a way to combine those two loves.

Top four food trends you’ll soon see on supermarket shelves

Some food trends come and go (we’re looking at you salted caramel) but some are much more long-term because they’re based on science.

Is your honey faking it?

With news that our honey might be cut with artificial substitutes, we look at how blockchain could be used to help solve issues like this in the future.

Farming

Ceres in your phone, our app that predicts farmers’ cereal yields

The digital revolution isn't limited to metropolises—Graincast is our app that helps farmers estimate yields from a single paddock to an entire crop.

Broccoli: better latte than never

You’ve seen the turmeric latte and the latte served in an avocado but could the broccoli latte be the next coffee trend?

How green is your bread?

Have you ever stopped to consider the environmental impact of everyday items like a loaf of bread?

Environment

Devourer of worlds: two of the worst pests have hybridised into a global ‘mega-pest’

The remarkably flexible cotton bollworm has overcome most insecticides and devoured global crop staples, and has now landed on the previously untarnished New World, there, with hybridisation now possible—it's a race against time for researchers to map its genome and find the genetic flaws to put a halt on its calamitous appetite.

Farming
Tech

Farmers grab technology by the horns

We have a long history of farming in Australia but we’re looking at how the digital revolution is starting to change farming for the future.

Food security