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Government gives $11m to support First Nations energy security

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2026  |  NEWS
... extreme hot or cold our old people suffer from either no heat or air-con, and the store cannot open - impacting food security for the community. The microgrid aims to alleviate this challenge enabling a constant source of electricity in the event of ...

UniSuper helps raise $30m for PlasmaLeap Technologies

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2026  |  NEWS
... using only air, water and renewable electricity, Byrne said. "The technology has the potential to improve national food security, reduce exposure to international price shocks, and reduce and stabilise input costs for growers. This capability becomes ...

Agtech for Earth and space gets backing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... Earth and space. Gaia Project Australia is a Melbourne-based agricultural technology company looking to future-proof food security. It has developed Omni-System, a groundbreaking technology designed to held leafy green vegetable growers increase yields ...

Retail CSOs do a shuffle

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... financial year the group reportedly delivered over $500 million in net societal benefit through investments in health, food security, decarbonisation and circularity. However, the group has faced criticism from environmental campaigners for the impact ...

Geostrategic risks in a changing world

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
Increasing geopolitical uncertainty means that investors must navigate new risks affecting supply chains, food security and human rights. Responsible investors must weigh ethical responsibility with protecting against financial risk. While most geopolitical ...

Global economists identify key risks for the decade ahead

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... Advancements in AI, quantum computing and biotechnology will provide partial solutions to some crises - such as healthcare, food security and climate mitigation - but drive inequality and widen the gap between the haves and have-nots. However, rampant ...

Nature credits a potential bonanza for Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... biodiversity offset market. "Agriculture is a sector for carbon credits, biodiversity credits and the real issue of food security," Smith said. "There has to be a holistic way where our agricultural communities can farm sustainably, even if they don't ...

Aussie farmers call for climate courage

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
Australia's food security hangs in the balance with climate change exacerbating extreme drought, flooding and other impacts which harm the country's ability to sustain food production, but climate change also presents opportunities for investment in ...

Global food systems at risk: Barclays

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 JAN 2023  |  NEWS
... positive progress on hunger or food insecurity are being reversed." "Whenever we think about food insecurity or food security from an investors point of view, it's from an opportunity perspective, because investors can view the future of food from a ...

Minderoo Foundation, Illumina launch ocean biodiversity DNA project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... "overfishing, habitat degradation and plastic pollution." Protecting marine biodiversity will impact on food sources, food security and help to manage the effects of climate change. The foundation said that in 2017-2018, Australia's marine industries ...
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