Program
TropAg 2025 Program
Addressing Global Challenges
The TropAg 2025 program focused on “Addressing Global Challenges” by featuring leading Australian and international scientific voices who are actively engaged in advancing research and raising awareness of the many challenges in the diverse field of agriculture and food production.
Speakers
Inspired by world-leading experts at TropAg 2025.
Our keynote speakers shared groundbreaking research, global insights, and bold ideas shaping the future of agriculture and food systems.
Mr Stephen Bennett MP
Member for Burnett and Chair of the Primary Industries and Resources Committee, Queensland Parliament
Theme 1
Future Foods - brought to you by FaBA
Innovative food and beverage manufacturing that delivers increasingly diverse consumer choice and sustainable food production to feed a growing population and enhance Australian and global F&B industries.
Symposiums:
- Exploring Indigenous Grains, Fruits, and Fungi: A Path to Food Sovereignty
- Precision Fermentation at the Crossroads of Innovation, Sustainability, and Demand
- Innovative Premium Food and Beverage products
- What is driving the future of food? Advancing the discussion on a national food strategy
- Cultivating Quality and Resilience in Coffee
- Tropical Horticulture Fruit Crops: Breeding, Genetics, Genomics and Consumers
- Enhancing Food Value Chains: Innovation, Sustainability, and Market Insights
- Optimising Health Through Functional Ingredients and Innovative Food Solutions
- Solutions for a Sustainable Future: Reducing Waste and Enhancing Food Security
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Theme 2
Growing Agriculture
Focused on community resilience, opportunity for industry and walking with First Nations people as we capture commercial, social, and environmental value through the food, fibre, and fuel supply chain, and manage risks and rewards.
Symposiums:
- Smart Aquaculture: Genomics, Innovation and Regional Development
- Agriculture Diversification in Northern Australia
- Predictive Agriculture for Generating Value
- Tech-Driven Resilience: Solutions for Future Farming
- Gender and Inclusivity in Agriculture
- Next-Generation Crop Protection
- Locally-Led Approaches to Sustainable Food System Transformation
- Driving Sustainable Ag Systems in Developing Nations
- Innovations in Pest and Disease Management: Safeguarding Global Agriculture
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Theme focus topics
community resilience
industry opportunity
First Nations
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Theme 3
Climate + Sustainability - brought to you by ACIAR
Focused on the urgent need within agricultural systems for climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies, biodiversity protection and sustainable resource management to safeguard ecosystems and livelihoods, and ensure resilience of food systems.
Symposiums:
- Transforming Dryland Agriculture
- Sustainable Agricultural Ecosystems and Innovative Technologies
- Future-Proofing Crops: Innovations in Plant Health and Biosecurity
- Pathways to Lower Emissions in Agriculture
- Low Emissions Livestock Pasture Systems
- Harnessing Genetic Resources for Sustainable Crop Productivity in a Changing Climate
- Plant Breeding for Future Climates
- Farming Systems for Climate Resilience in the Tropics
- Sustainable Cattle Production: Tackling Disease, Fertility, and Environmental Challenges
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Theme focus topics
climate change
biodiversity protection
sustainable resource management
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