A Cairns biotechnology company has its sights set on curing Type 2 diabetes – with a little help from Northern Australia’s unique array of parasitic worms. Macrobiome Therapeutics and James Cook University’s (JCU’s) Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine (AITHM) will collaborate on a new $2.2 million R & [...]
The Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA)’s latest collaboration is tipped to increase the export value of the Tiwi Islands forestry industry with the development of improved tree species and management practices over the next 3 years. Project participants will officially kick off the three-year, $4.6 million Maximising [...]
University of Queensland PhD candidate and winner of the CRCNA – DNA student competition Adriana Vega Grau will be take centre stage at next week’s Developing Northern Australia conference in Darwin. Adriana edged out competition from across Australia with her short video outlining her research topic ‘Helping rehabilitate post-mined landscapes in Northern [...]
CRCNA CEO Anne Stünzner, Chief Scientist Professor Allan Dale, a range of CRCNA-funded researchers and one lucky student will head to Darwin next week to participate in this year’s Developing Northern Australia (DNA) conference. The event runs from Monday 16 August through until lunchtime Wednesday 18 August and aims unites leaders, decision makers, industry [...]
Indigenous communities can now assess the quality and sweetness of their wild-harvested native bush fruits in the field, rather than sending samples off to food science laboratories. A prototype digital and portable bush fruits chemistry toolkit has been developed by University of Queensland researchers for communities to use on site, [...]
Across Northern Australia traditional low-density horticultural production systems continue to be highly susceptible to tropical cyclones leading to not only stagnated sectoral growth but missed economic opportunities. As part of a new CRCNA research collaboration, a range of high-density production systems and trellis planting systems will be assessed for not only their cyclone resilience but also their production capacity and profitability. Colloquially termed the ‘next generation [...]
Water is vital to our wellbeing and prosperity, individually and collectively. Yet, the ability of our water resources to sustain our development trajectory is increasingly under threat in the face of rampant demand, finite supply, and a changing climate. In the face of this crisis the standard prescription of investing [...]
Greater Whitsunday Alliance (GW3) will lead research to identify key agricultural products for export from the Mackay Issac Whitsunday region through project funding from the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA). Greater Whitsunday Alliance chief executive officer Ms Kylie Porter said the research will identify key Mackay Isaac [...]
By Zara Boshier |Master of Agricultural Science, University of Queensland Project: Exploring the Applications of NIR Spectroscopy in an Indigenous-led Wild Harvested Kakadu Plum Value Chain Zara recently travelled to Darwin as part of the CRCNA’s Improving the efficiency of Kakadu Plum/ Gubinge value chains to grow a robust and [...]