Less than 10 per cent of all perishable foods is estimated to be refrigerated, even though  post-harvest losses add up to 30 per cent of food production worldwide. Innovation  with decentralized renewable energy (DRE) is essential in Africa and Asia because  access and connection to electricity in rural areas, where food is produced, is still poor . Solar energy is harnessed to run these machines. The units run directly from solar power during the day and stored solar energy (batteries) at night,These units can be used by governments, farmers, military and humanitarian workers. Photo credit: Adelano

Calls are growing to invest more in Africa's traditional grains as a way to break its reliance on imported wheat, rice and maize.F

Space is a new frontier for agricultural innovation to feed human populations. BioHarvest has achieved  this with red grapes, olives, and pomegranates. BioHarvest technology enables economical production of commercial biomass of unique plant-based metabolites (such as polyphenols, antioxidants, cannabinoids, terpenes, psychoactive molecules, proteins and more) without the need to grow the plant itself. As an example, with grapes, this  production in the industrial scale proprietary bioreactors rather than on land creates  some 95% less physical space  needed in traditional farming. Using one seven-foot bioreactor can  produce what would require 240,000 square meters of land annually. Photo: BioHarvest

Each year, the world loses about 10 million hectares of forest because of deforestation. In an effort to provide an envi

Dr Hoan Dinh, AusAID scholar and PhD student at the University of Sydney, found and defined the sequence of a gene responsible for