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ABFA IPA: RD&E project investment and management via ABFA strategic plan 2021-2025

Project number: 2020-127
Project Status:
Current
Budget expenditure: $270,901.00
Principal Investigator: Jo-Anne Ruscoe
Organisation: Australian Barramundi Farmers Association (ABFA)
Project start/end date: 1 Aug 2021 - 29 Aug 2025
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Aquaculture
SPECIES
Barramundi

Need

The Australian Barramundi Farmers' Association(ABFA) is the peak representative organisation for the Australian farmed barramundi industry. We exist to facilitate the profitable and responsible development of the Australian Farmed Barramundi industry. reserch, development and extension of knowledge to industry is a core function of the association.

There is a need to maintain cohesive and strategic direction of ABFA RD&E in line with the ABFA 2020-25 Strategic Plan, and in alignment with the Indusry partnership Agreement.
Communication and extension across members, service providers, funders and other key stakeholder groups on RD&E needs and outcomes is required.

This project is needed to give effect to the ABFA's responsibilities in planning, investing in and managing of RD&E and the adoption of RD&E results, in acordance with the IPA.

Objectives

1. Maintain cohesive and strategic direction of ABFA RD&E in line with the ABFA Strategic Plan
2. Support development and management of RD&E that addresses industry priorities
3. Effective communication and extension across members, service providers, funders and other key stakeholder groups
4. Identify opportunities for additional leveraging, cash and in-kind contributions.

Australian Agrifood Data Exchange (OzAg Data Exchange): Deliver an interconnected data highway for Australia's AgriFood value chain - Proof of concept

Project number: 2020-126
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $344,500.00
Principal Investigator: Irene Sobotta
Organisation: Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)
Project start/end date: 23 Sep 2021 - 30 May 2024
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Traceability
Digitisation
Data

Need

Although the use of data and analytics is becoming more widespread across agricultural industries and institutions, the sector is held back by the lack of a consolidated data platform that combines multiple data sets from multiple data sources in real time. Other technology
and data challenges compromising the strength of the Australian agriculture industry include:

Businesses often need to access multiple data systems/datasets which are stored across various platforms and functions and are not well integrated. Aggregating and reconciling these datasets require manual intervention, is rife with errors/duplication and require significant effort to ensure uptake across the business in order to lead to tangible analytics outcomes. This interoperability challenge is commonplace across the industry today.

Data is not shared between the various stakeholders within the industry at times leading to analysis been taken place with incomplete datasets and other times for duplication of efforts with varying results. Data sharing/collaborating culture which would be backed by an established data governance framework including protocols/policies for data access, privacy, definition and standards, would uplift the industry analytical capabilities.

Challenges in understanding where to prioritise efforts to best support the industry. With significant opportunities for data-driven use cases across the value chain, defining the prioritisation of funding and efforts to build capabilities is a critical challenge for industry bodies and governments. The OzAg DX could enable consolidated, integrated and standardised data, to help reduce the labour intensive effort of collecting and analysing data to make better informed prioritisation decisions on deployment of limited support resources and capabilities.

A slow take up of digital technologies is slowing agricultural productivity growth. As Australia looks to achieve the target of $100 billion farm gate output by 2030, digital agriculture is expected to contribute up to an additional $20 billion annually to the gross value of agricultural production.

Objectives

1. Exchange data efficiently on agreed terms with trusted service providers or other interested parties such as government and researchers
2. Enable Australia's agrifood sector to access and take full advantage of the huge amounts of data that is being generated and efficiently transfer their data across the value chain
3. Reduce costly inefficiencies, poor collaboration, wasteful use of critical managerial time and loss of opportunities caused by disparate, siloed and proprietary data systems

Presentation

Presentation • 14.10 MB
Experiment 4 Demo – compliance and traceability for rock lobster quota in Western Australia by Telstra IBM.pdf

Summary

Pain point:
The delay in exchange and reconciliation of catch data by fishers and processors means that there is a delay in quota accounting which impacts planning due to lack of timely information. Furthermore, with no access to pre-fishing information data to the processors means they are unable to plan logistics for efficient transportation. In addition, longer term ambitions of an end-to-end product traceability system will require a reliable data exchange between inputs, production and logistics.

Experiment:
To demonstrate the timely flow of pre-fishing information, quota accounting data, and product (catch) data from WA DPIRD (Fisheries management agency) to Fishers and Processors in a secure and permissioned manner to allow for better logistics planning, and data from Fishers and Processors to DPIRD to enable timely quota consumption accounting. 
Industry
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2020-124
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Australian Fisheries and Aquaculture Statistics 2019-2020

The Australian Fisheries and Aquaculture Statistics report contains comprehensive information on commercial fishing and aquaculture in Australia covering fisheries production, trade data and consumption and employment statistics. The report is aimed at providing statistical information for the...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF)
SPECIES
Marron

Biology and Ecology Program: Strategically targeting research on Panulirus cygnus and its ecosystem to suit the needs of the WRL fishing industry and stakeholders

Project number: 2020-123
Project Status:
Current
Budget expenditure: $750,000.00
Principal Investigator: Simon de Lestang
Organisation: Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) Hillarys
Project start/end date: 30 Sep 2021 - 29 Sep 2025
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Sustainability
SPECIES
Western Rock Lobster

Need

A program to direct WRL BBE research over the next four years will increase the strategic focus of research and increase the efficiency of the application and granting process, thus leading to a more rapid implementation of outcomes into the management of the fishery.
Quantitative methods used by DPRID to assess WRL stock and predict recruitment are based on the historical research, and have served the industry well, with current stock levels being extremely healthy and the fishery targeting maximum economic yield. Recently, perceived anomalies in observations and predictions have led to concerns by some within industry that the understanding of the BBE of WRL is not as robust as once thought, and that gaps within our knowledge exist. Members of industry, including investors, fishers, processors and government, all have different views on what research is important, what we currently have a good understanding of, and what information is potentially missing from our current suite of knowledge, in addition to what may be important in the future. Some knowledge gaps may be perceived rather than actual with prior research existing, but has not been disseminated wide-enough, while other gaps will be novel and unknown. There is an expansive back catalogue of research on WRL that currently is unknown to many within the WRL industry and re-iterating this research to industry would aid many in increasing their understanding of the current sustainability of the stock and the value for future investment. There also exists a number of knowledge gaps identified by industry and prioritising these is required. Thus, there is a need to review and collate historical research on WRL and disseminate this in a report for the WRL stakeholders.
There is also a need to strategically align current and future research with contemporary requirements such as addressing information requirements to maintain MSC certification, ecosystem-based fisheries management, the effects of adjacent marine activities (e.g. seismic) and marine parks, and the constantly changing seascape through climate change and extreme events.

Objectives

1. Collate all published research on Western Rock Lobster and develop this into a usable format
2. Canvass Western Rock Lobster stakeholders to determine perceived knowledge gaps
3. Develop research projects to reduce knowledge gaps and produce information required for the WRL industry over a four-year horizon
4. Identify future areas of Western Rock Lobster research after the four-years horizon.

Human Dimensions Research Coordination Program 2021-24

Project number: 2020-122
Project Status:
Current
Budget expenditure: $440,705.00
Principal Investigator: Emily Ogier
Organisation: University of Tasmania
Project start/end date: 30 Sep 2021 - 29 Jan 2026
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Social Science
Social Science
Human Dimensions Research
Economic

Need

The operating environment within which Australian fisheries and aquaculture are positioned is complex, comprising economic, social and political institutions and organisations that are continuously being re-shaped by multiple external and internal drivers.

Addressing these specific drivers requires understanding of the human dimensions of fisheries and aquaculture, along with the biophysical. Human dimensions refers to the social, economic and cultural factors that affect outcomes for both the seafood community and in terms of public good. This includes the attitudes, processes and behaviours of individual people, companies, management agencies, communities, organisations, consumers, and markets. Human dimensions research has been successfully applied to understand how to enable better outcomes for Australia's fisheries and aquaculture (e.g. improved social acceptability, resilience through shocks, inclusive growth, economic productivity), and what are the effective strategies to achieve this (e.g. market based mechanisms, behavioural approaches). It brings together research capability from a broad range of disciplines.

Historically, achieving the level of coordinated investment required to effectively deliver against this need has been hampered by a range of factors, which have included:
• effective integration of human dimensions RD&E with biophysical sciences; and
• research capability and expertise capable of undertaking such research to ensure end user needs are met.

The FRDC has invested substantively in human dimensions R&D capability in recognition of this need. Ongoing coordination and strategic development of human dimensions R&D activities will support the FRDC to deliver its Fish Forever 2030 vision: Collaborative, vibrant fishing and aquaculture, creating diverse benefits from aquatic resources, and celebrated by the community.

The FRDC considers Coordination Programs as critical to delivering relevant outcomes of the R&D Plan. With respect to Human Dimensions, it is evident that a planned R&D outcome can be achieved more successfully if expertise and related activities are developed and managed in a coordinated manner.

Objectives

1. Identify and coordinate the development of human dimensions R&D priorities through review and consultation with key stakeholders, and assist to develop scopes to address those priorities
2. Ensure quality and relevance of human dimensions R&D through technical and extension advice and support for FRDC management and project teams
3. Support management of external partnerships delivering human dimensions R&D across FRDC
4. Support development of FRDC human dimensions data and analytics
5. Inform FRDC and stakeholders of state of knowledge and capability, and emerging needs, in key human dimensions R&D areas relevant to the FRDC's R&D Plan outcome and enabling strategy areas
6. Support extension and adoption of R&D in key human dimensions R&D areas relevant to the FRDC R&D Plan outcome and enabling strategy areas
7. Develop and foster R&D collaboration on international initiatives in human dimensions research of relevance to Australian fisheries and aquaculture

Indigenous Branding in the Fishing and Seafood Industry - Economic Creation and Capture

Project number: 2020-121
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $100,000.00
Principal Investigator: Ewan A. Colquhoun
Organisation: Ridge Partners
Project start/end date: 4 May 2021 - 29 Apr 2022
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Indigenous

Need

Modern fishery regulations are creating new opportunities for Indigenous people to participate in the whole seafood chain. (see the recent corporate examples noted in the Background Section).

Indigenous people are increasingly the owners of commercial fishing licenses, and the operators of fishery businesses. But in wholesale markets their harvests will have to compete on price per kilogram with every other fishers' product. If they lack business scale or are not productive and commercially agile, their commercial business will not survive.

One option is for Indigenous fishers to offer seafood attributes that are unique and attractive to consumers. If products are differentiated and also branded in unique ways, some end-consumers may value these attributes and be willing to pay higher prices, which flow back to the fisher/owner of the brand. This is the same economic pathway that every other commercial fishing and seafood business pursues.

But does this logic apply to emerging Australian Indigenous brand fisheries? That is the question this project seeks to address.
Is there substantive global and local evidence supporting the development of specific commercial Indigenous food brands in any seafood/food market? And if there are commercial branding benefits, can Indigenous fishers/producers actually capture the benefits of the investment they make in such branding, or are they dissipated along the supply chain?

This analysis should be undertaken before further FRDC and other agency or authority funds are committed to R&D or other funding that supports the development of Indigenous seafood brands.

IRG Members considered how best to approach the challenge. Members supported that the Priority 2 (Benefits of an Indigenous brand) should be funded as a project immediately.
They agreed a technical analysis of the economic benefit of such a brand should be undertaken via a desktop international audit to capture information on successes and failures using such brands, understanding the whys, the costs, governance involved and if successful where is the benefit captured (at the supplier, middle person or the end point.

Objectives

1. Identify and engage with Indigenous enterprises that manage seafood brands
2. Draw conclusions re economic impacts of Indigenous food/seafood brands
3. Document and report the economic impacts on and potential for Australian Indigenous food/seafood brands.
4. Document which stages of the supply chain accrue the economic benefit from any branding

Final report

ISBN: 978-0-6487893-3-8 Indigenous brand assessment
Final Report • 2023-09-01 • 8.91 MB
2020-121-DLD.pdf

Summary

This project was commissioned by the Indigenous Reference Group (IRG), an advisory committee to the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC). The report provides professional advice to the IRG regarding the potential for economic impacts from branding by Australian and international Indigenous seafood enterprises in commercial markets.
The executive summary comprises three parts:
1. Research framework and limitations,
2. Issues and drivers for Indigenous seafood branding,
3. Conclusions from case studies and review.

Assessing the effectiveness of IRG R&D projects to deliver change

Project number: 2020-120
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $147,938.00
Principal Investigator: Leila Alkassab
Organisation: Land to Sea Consulting
Project start/end date: 31 Oct 2021 - 30 Jul 2022
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Indigenous

Need

Within each IRG project there is always an attempt to address multiple IRG Priorities, particularly a capacity building component. However, what is often missing is an understanding of what impact the project has had and how the capacity building component from each project has led to any discernible change from a participant’s perspective. The IRG through the FRDC have funded two recent projects that were both designed to lead to an up-skilling, and hopefully a call to action in addressing Indigenous participation in fisheries areas. This project seeks to better understand the impacts these projects have made in these areas from the perspective of the project participants. Researchers will collate the experiences of participants through semi-structured interviews and develop resources suitable to communicate outcomes to stakeholders.

Objectives

1. To undertake a series of semi-structured interviews with participants of two previous FRDC IRG projects
2. To document and collate the experiences of participants from two FRDC IRG projects
3. To develop resources suitable to communicate findings of this project to stakeholders
4. To provide professional capacity building for Indigenous student in project management and research

Final report

Authors: Leila Alkassab Paris Beasy
Final Report • 2024-07-25
2020-120-DLD.pdf

Summary

This project assesses the effectiveness of FRDC IRG projects to deliver change. Using two previous FRDC IRG funded projects as case studies, the assessment evaluates the impact of research and capacity building on Indigenous and non-Indigenous participants. This is vital for advancing both strengths as well as identifying areas for improvement in future projects. The conversations we had with 20 individuals, which took place over the phone and were analysed through NVIVO, which identified and coded common themes between the interviews. Based on recurring themes, the findings and key messages are presented within this report and within additional reports which are written in accessible language and design. Reflective of our conversations with workshop attendees, this report identifies how projects were perceived, experienced and areas of improvement based on the participant’s point of view.
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