The "5 Bees (Building Better Beekeeping Businesses after Bushfires and more recently floods)" project aimed to support commercial beekeepers in trialling the use of technologies to capture, analyse, and share data, including provenance and traceability, to determine the value of that data to their businesses and end-customers.

Key activities included...

Agave has huge potential as a plentiful and superior bioenergy and biofuel feedstock in Australia. Species are currently limited to A.tequilana and naturalised stands of A.Americana. A.tequilana is used for spirit production and plants are sensitive to cold and destroyed by frost, significantly limiting their geographic range. This excludes vast...

This project aims to tackle two major bacterial infections that have significant economic impacts on beekeeping, namely American Foulbrood (AFB) and European Foulbrood (EFB). These infections affect the larval stages of honey bees, causing death in their pre-pupal or pupal life stages. AFB can strike both strong and weak hives,...

The project is a comprehensive scan of market access barriers for six emerging commodities: coffee, hazelnuts, industrial hemp, insects, sesame, and truffles. Based on extensive desktop research and stakeholder engagement, it aims to develop guidelines and a toolkit to identify, understand, and address the following challenges:

• government-imposed rules and policies...