Enabling cellular agriculture in Australia

We are the only organisation dedicated to ensuring that Australia's cellular agriculture sector contributes to providing ethical, accessible and sustainable food for all.

What we do

We focus on tackling common challenges and opportunities facing the cellular agriculture sector in Australia.

We take an inclusive and participatory approach to our work by engaging with a broad range of stakeholders on key thematic areas. These areas include: navigating regulation, accessing and developing talent, and advocating to key stakeholders with common language and consistent messaging.

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What is cellular agriculture?

Cellular agriculture uses cells and innovative biotechnologies to produce accessible, ethical and sustainable agricultural products.

This method is most commonly used to make animal-derived foods and ingredients such as meat, seafood, dairy products, fats, egg whites and gelatin. It can also be used to produce non-animal-derived products such as human breast milk, coffee, chocolate and palm oil.

Why cellular agriculture?

The global demand for food will increase by up to 70% by 2050. We cannot meet this demand sustainably or ethically with current production methods alone.

Cellular agriculture is one of many solutions required to ensure an ethical, accessible and sustainable food system into the future.

It has the potential to overcome six critical challenges facing our current agricultural system.

Its actual impact will depend on numerous decisions cellular agriculture companies will have to make as they move towards commercial scale.

1

Food insecurity

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663 million people globally are undernourished and around 697 million people (9% of the world population) are severely food insecure. We need to devise efficient methods of production, such as cellular agriculture, to boost food availability.

2

Deforestation

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Animal agriculture alone uses 40% of the Earth’s land - the equivalent of North and South America combined. Globally, we are losing almost 5 million hectares of vegetation every year, and around 50% of that due to cattle grazing and animal feed crops.

3

Biodiversity loss

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If you take the physical biomass of all the mammals and birds on the planet, only 5% of that biomass comes from wild animals. The rest is made up of humans and domesticated animals.

4

Climate change

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The production of food is responsible for approximately 26% of global green house gas emissions. Animal agriculture and fisheries contributes to 31% of food emissions, or 14% of total emissions worldwide (behind energy and transport).

5

Public health

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1 in 10 fall ill and 420,000 people die each year from food-borne illnesses, for example Salmonella. Cellular agriculture presents an opportunity to reduce this through the use of tightly controlled hygiene and manufacturing processes.

6

Animal welfare

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Globally, 20 billion land animals and potentially 100 billion fish are being intensively farmed at any point in time. Of all farmed land animals, 73% globally and 99% in the US, are in factory farms.

Career opportunities

The sector is growing and presents a myriad of career opportunities across STEM and non-STEM fields.

Featured event

Early bird tickets are still available for the 2023 CellAg Summit held in Sydney on 15 June.

Latest publications & insights

Keep up to date with the latest news and insights from CAA.

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May 30, 2023

Our 2022 Annual Report

Our 2022 Annual Report

Our 2022 Annual Report

Download your copy to read about our achievements in 2022 as well as our honest reflections on some of the challenges that we faced.
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February 7, 2023
April 27, 2023

Cellular agriculture: a crucial opportunity for Australia

Cellular agriculture: a crucial opportunity for Australia

Cellular agriculture: a crucial opportunity for Australia

In this article we discuss some of the technical challenges the sector is facing and the factors required to support the sector's growth and success.
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April 25, 2023

White Paper: An Opportunity to Diversify Australia's Food System

White Paper: An Opportunity to Diversify Australia's Food System

White Paper: An Opportunity to Diversify Australia's Food System

The white paper outlines the need for public investment and support across three key areas if cellular agriculture is to thrive in Australia.
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May 30, 2023

Our 2022 Annual Report

Our 2022 Annual Report

Our 2022 Annual Report

Download your copy to read about our achievements in 2022 as well as our honest reflections on some of the challenges that we faced.
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February 7, 2023
April 27, 2023

Cellular agriculture: a crucial opportunity for Australia

Cellular agriculture: a crucial opportunity for Australia

Cellular agriculture: a crucial opportunity for Australia

In this article we discuss some of the technical challenges the sector is facing and the factors required to support the sector's growth and success.
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Thank you to our supporters

We are deeply humbled and grateful for each and every one of our growing community of supporters. We simply would not be where we are without you.

Make a donation

If you believe in the impact potential of cellular agriculture and the work we do in enabling this, make a tax deductible donation and help us reach our fundraising goal of AUD 150,000 by 30 June 2023.