#Trends

A hungrier, wealthier, choosier, smarter, riskier world: five challenges for Australian agriculture

You don’t need a crystal ball to know Australia’s rural industries will face significant change at global, national and local levels over the coming decades. This will create opportunities and challenges for small and large farms, and will affect rural lifestyles, agricultural landscapes and Australia’s society and economy.

The ingredients (and our vision) for a smart society

What do you think of when we say 'science'? It should be 'innovation' and 'collaboration'. We need to fundamentally change the way we innovate in Australia - and we think we should be the linchpin behind it all. Find out how.

The seventh megatrend: why Australia must embrace innovation

After the initial six, we've identified an additional, seventh megatrend, known as “the innovation imperative”, which argues Australia needs risk-taking, new ideas and blue-sky scientific research.

What are the future megatrends all Australians need to know about?

By Megan Clark, CSIRO If hindsight is such a wonderful thing, surely foresight would be better. What if we could […]