Fodder's research investigates the trends, technologies and shifts reshaping Australian agriculture and food — and what they mean for the people, organisations and institutions that will live with the consequences.
Our work is independent, evidence-led, and published on its own terms. We focus on the questions that sit between disciplines, between sectors, and between the present and the next decade — the ones that don't get answered by vendor research, imported analysis, or the narrower scope of any single institution.
This page is where that work lives.
Our work is organised around six connected themes. Each is being investigated through a mix of analysis, fieldwork, and conversation with the people closest to it.
How digital systems and AI are reshaping operations, decisions and value chains across Australian agriculture — and what changes when the tools become genuinely capable rather than merely available.
The physical layer of agricultural transformation. What's working, what isn't, and what the next decade of automation actually looks like for Australian operators.
How agricultural supply chains are being reconfigured by traceability requirements, geopolitical change, and shifting buyer expectations — and what Australian producers and processors need to be ready for.
The resource base the sector depends on — water, energy, soil, inputs — under climate, regulatory and market pressure. What changes, what holds, and what new operating models become necessary.
Where capital is moving in Australian agriculture and food, what it's looking for, and what the next generation of investable models looks like across production, processing and technology.
The shifts happening to agriculture everywhere — trade, geopolitics, consumer change, food security — read through an Australian lens. What we should pay attention to, and what we should resist importing.
A starting point across the current themes.
Australia's Digital Product Passport ecosystem for livestock is technically well-defined — but not yet operational at scale. What's holding it up, what changes when it lands, and what producers and processors should be doing now.
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The gap between what gets built and what gets used isn't a design problem. It's a research problem — and it has implications well beyond software.
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What's holding it up, and what changes when it lands.
What it suggests about the rest of the sector.
Not a design problem. A research problem.
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Our research appears in a few distinct formats, each suited to a different kind of question.
Longer, structured pieces investigating a specific trend, technology or shift in depth. Typically 2,000–5,000 words, published on the site, sometimes accompanied by a downloadable summary.
Structured research papers on a defined question, designed to be read by decision-makers and shared across organisations. Published as downloadable PDFs alongside a web summary.
Shorter observations from active work — what we're seeing, what's surprising us, what's worth flagging early. Published on the site, often as part of a continuing thread.
Point-of-view pieces and open questions. Less neutral than the analysis work, and deliberately so — there's a place for arguments alongside the evidence.
Documented work from advisory and design engagements, published with the consent of the organisations involved. Useful for showing how research translates into decisions and outcomes.
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