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Are you able to share an summary of what Mobile Agriculture Australia does?
Mobile Agriculture Australia (CAA) is a registered Australian nonprofit and the main advocacy organisation for Australia’s mobile agriculture sector. Our mission is to construct the ecosystem to place Australia as a pacesetter in mobile agriculture and meals biomanufacturing. Mobile agriculture includes using cells and revolutionary biotechnologies (e.g., cell cultivation, precision fermentation) to biomanufacture a variety of components, meals, and agricultural merchandise. This suite of applied sciences is mostly getting used to supply meat, seafood, dairy proteins, and fat derived immediately from animal cells reasonably than by way of the traditional farming and slaughter of animals.
CAA is pushed by the assumption that mobile agriculture has the potential to scale back reliance on typical agricultural manufacturing strategies, strengthen provide chain resilience and meals safety, and assist to satisfy rising international demand for protein and different merchandise—sustainably and ethically.
CAA’s strategic priorities speed up the desirability, viability, and feasibility of mobile agriculture to drive the commercialisation and availability of merchandise, finally benefiting farmed animal welfare, meals safety, local weather, and public well being. Extra particularly, our work goals to:
- Allow business innovation: We foyer state and federal governments for funding and coverage assist to unlock vital analysis and growth and scale-up infrastructure for mobile agriculture.
- Speed up the trail to market, safely: We convey business leaders collectively on key regulatory points, advocate for beneficial regulatory situations, and assist corporations navigate Australia and New Zealand’s regulatory framework, guaranteeing it retains tempo with rising meals applied sciences.
- Construct familiarity and belief: We’re constructing a physique of open-source client analysis and communication instruments to assist clear, constant sector-wide messaging to extend familiarity and belief in mobile agriculture.
The place do you see the most important alternative for mobile agriculture to scale back animal struggling?
Australia has a robust agricultural business fuelled by home and worldwide demand. It ranks third globally for per capita meat consumption, and is among the many world’s largest producers of beef and lamb—offering a big alternative for displacement and decreased reliance on typical agriculture.
Our work accelerates the commercialisation of merchandise produced utilizing mobile agriculture applied sciences. These merchandise have the potential to considerably scale back farmed animal struggling by providing fascinating options—typically with an equal style and sensory expertise to traditional merchandise—that don’t depend on elevating and slaughtering animals. With the potential for components produced utilizing mobile agriculture applied sciences to be built-in throughout a variety of meals classes, the chance isn’t confined to at least one product or species—it’s a systems-level shift that expands moral client selections and reduces reliance on typical manufacturing strategies.
Australian corporations are already growing cultivated meat from sheep, pigs, and quail, in addition to precision-fermented dairy components. Tutorial teams are advancing work on cultivated seafood, and one firm is growing options to fetal bovine serum, serving to take away some of the ethically-challenging inputs in cell tradition. Notably, Vow is promoting cultivated quail merchandise, together with foie gras, in eating places in Sydney and Melbourne (in addition to in Singapore, the place additionally they have regulatory approval)—immediately displacing demand for a product with extreme welfare issues.
Importantly, components produced utilizing mobile agriculture applied sciences are additionally getting used to handle style and sensory shortcomings in plant-based proteins. By enabling a broader vary of high-quality, fascinating protein merchandise, these applied sciences have the potential to dramatically broaden the market share of different proteins. In doing so, they may considerably scale back reliance on typical animal agriculture and thus spare giant quantities of farmed animal struggling.
What are among the key findings or “huge wins” you’ve had in 2025?
- Co-hosted Made & Grown: The Way forward for Meals convention: In partnership with the ANU Agrifood Innovation Institute and the ANU Nationwide Safety School, we co-hosted a high-impact, one-day convention in Canberra attended by 150 individuals from throughout authorities, business, and academia. This system showcased the meals and agricultural biotechnologies shaping Australia’s future meals system and catalysed deeper engagement with federal authorities stakeholders. Constructing on the convention outcomes, we co-authored a white paper that distils key themes and coverage priorities, which has since been circulated throughout a number of authorities departments. This physique of labor will proceed to information our advocacy agenda into 2026.
- A quicker regulatory pathway for cultivated meat: CAA led a sustained advocacy marketing campaign that has resulted in a devoted regulatory pathway for cultivated meat merchandise, in addition to quicker and cheaper meals security assessments. In 2025, Meals Requirements Australia New Zealand launched new requirements for cell-cultivated meals, making Australia solely the second jurisdiction globally, after america, to determine a devoted regulatory pathway for cell-cultivated merchandise. These adjustments have clarified utility necessities and decreased approval timeframes and prices for corporations in search of regulatory approval. Study extra about Australia’s regulatory adjustments for cultivated meat.
- Elevated Australian Authorities recognition of mobile agriculture: By means of direct engagement and a number of coverage submissions, CAA has efficiently raised the profile of mobile agriculture and clarified the sector’s challenges: two authorities experiences explicitly cited the necessity for assist for mobile agriculture and novel meals in 2025; a direct end result of our efforts. Though a stepping stone to confirmed assist, the rising acknowledgment of the sector’s strategic significance creates a transparent alternative to unlock authorities funding.
Which space of your work poses the most important problem proper now?
In 2025, we made important progress elevating consciousness of mobile agriculture throughout key Australian Authorities departments, the place the sector has traditionally obtained restricted consideration. Nevertheless, federal-level assist stays restricted. As a sector, the speedy problem is to develop and current a unified, credible, and compelling technique that quantifies the nationwide alternative and descriptions the dimensions of funding required. To handle this, a key initiative in 2026 is to guide the event of this sector-wide technique in collaboration with main business and analysis companions. This plan will information each private and non-private funding to speed up Australia’s mobile agriculture sector from pilot-stage analysis by way of to scalable commercialisation.
How has the ACE Motion Grant helped strengthen CAA’s work?
ACE has offered a common assist grant to CAA. This funding helps with management salaries over 2025–26, complementing different secured funding that helps our programmatic work. This core assist has allowed our management workforce to give attention to strategic priorities, construct key authorities and business relationships, and preserve the operational capability wanted to ship impression successfully and sustainably.
In case you needed to share a remaining message with the ACE viewers, what would it not be?
Mobile agriculture is a once-in-a-generation alternative to create true systems-level change for farmed animals. It’s a deep-tech subject with an extended street to commercialisation, however one with extraordinary potential to scale back struggling at an unprecedented scale.
The timeline to impression is medium to long run, which is why sustained assist and acceleration are so vital now. The choices we make right this moment will decide whether or not this expertise can meaningfully rework our meals system tomorrow.
Regardless of the challenges, CAA is energised and dedicated to advancing this work by way of 2026 and past.
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