Strategy

We believe cellular agriculture plays a key role in ensuring sustainable and accessible food for all. Our current strategy is a critical decision making tool to guide our activities in 2023 and 2024, ensuring that we deliver value to Australia's cellular agriculture sector as effectively as possible.

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In the development of our current strategy, we reflected on how various individuals and groups are engaging with our work.

We deliberately listened to stakeholders across the Australian sector to understand where the opportunities lie for CAA. This led to a strategy that is framed around five pillars.

Below is an outline of each of the five pillars of our impact framework, alongside their long and short-term outcomes. Together, these pillars contribute to our mission.

Download an overview of our strategy, current priorities and progress made to date here.

Impact framework

Regulation

Long-term outcome

The long-term outcome we are targeting through these projects is for cellular agriculture companies to perceive and experience the Australian regulatory framework as attractive, clear, consistent and easily accessible.

Short-term outcomes

  • Companies have access to the knowledge required to consistently and effectively engage with Australia's regulation framework.
  • The Food Standards Code remains updated to reflect advancements in technology, as well as the cellular agriculture sector and the products it can produce.
  • Companies have access to the services required to efficiently get cellular agriculture products for sale in - and export from - Australia.

Talent development

Long-term outcome

The long-term outcome we are targeting through these projects is for Australia's cellular agriculture sector to have access to a sustainable pipeline of appropriately skilled and experienced talent.

Short-term outcomes

  • Relevant prospective talent actively want to pursue a career in Australia's cellular agriculture sector.
  • Relevant prospective talent understand and can access job and educational opportunities in Australia
  • Australia has accessible and appropriate training opportunities to develop the talent that the sector needs to scale well.

Sector building

Long-term outcome

The long-term outcome we are targeting is for Australia's cellular agriculture sector to be made up of diverse stakeholders who leverage one another’s strengths to work on common challenges and opportunities.

Short-term outcomes

  • New and relevant stakeholders are able to access, engage with, and add value to the cellular agriculture sector in Australia.
  • Diverse stakeholders from across the cellular agriculture sector in Australia are coming together to share knowledge and identify, prioritise and work on common challenges and opportunities.

Advocacy

Long-term outcome

The long-term outcome we are targeting through these projects is for Australia's cellular agriculture sector to be effectively positioning itself on key topics, clearly and consistently. Some of these topics include regulation, talent development and access to infrastructure.

Short-term outcomes

  • The cellular agriculture sector in Australia has access to clear, effective and commonly agreed communication material linked to key topics such as talent, regulation and infrastructure.
  • The cellular agriculture sector in Australia has the capacity (CAA) to consistently leverage and deliver common messages.

Accountability

Long-term outcome

The cellular agriculture industry in Australia is objectively measuring its performance across a number of social, environmental and economic indicators.

Short-term outcomes

  • The cellular agriculture industry in Australia has a monitoring and evaluation mechanism that highlights the performance of companies against relevant and appropriate benchmarks.
  • There is an open and accessible platform to transparently disseminate monitoring and reporting metrics for Australia's cellular agriculture industry.

Regulation

Long-term outcome

The long-term outcome we are targeting through these projects is for cellular agriculture companies to perceive and experience the Australian regulatory framework as attractive, clear, consistent and easily accessible.

Short-term outcomes

  • Companies have access to the knowledge required to consistently and effectively engage with Australia's regulation framework.
  • The Food Standards Code remains updated to reflect advancements in technology, as well as the cellular agriculture sector and the products it can produce.
  • Companies have access to the services required to efficiently get cellular agriculture products for sale in - and export from - Australia.

Talent development

Long-term outcome

The long-term outcome we are targeting through these projects is for Australia's cellular agriculture sector to have access to a sustainable pipeline of appropriately skilled and experienced talent.

Short-term outcomes

  • Relevant prospective talent actively want to pursue a career in Australia's cellular agriculture sector.
  • Relevant prospective talent understand and can access job and educational opportunities in Australia
  • Australia has accessible and appropriate training opportunities to develop the talent that the sector needs to scale well.

Sector building

Long-term outcome

The long-term outcome we are targeting is for Australia's cellular agriculture sector to be made up of diverse stakeholders who leverage one another’s strengths to work on common challenges and opportunities.

Short-term outcomes

  • New and relevant stakeholders are able to access, engage with, and add value to the cellular agriculture sector in Australia.
  • Diverse stakeholders from across the cellular agriculture sector in Australia are coming together to share knowledge and identify, prioritise and work on common challenges and opportunities.

Advocacy

Long-term outcome

The long-term outcome we are targeting through these projects is for Australia's cellular agriculture sector to be effectively positioning itself on key topics, clearly and consistently. Some of these topics include regulation, talent development and access to infrastructure.

Short-term outcomes

  • The cellular agriculture sector in Australia has access to clear, effective and commonly agreed communication material linked to key topics such as talent, regulation and infrastructure.
  • The cellular agriculture sector in Australia has the capacity (CAA) to consistently leverage and deliver common messages.

Accountability

Long-term outcome

The cellular agriculture industry in Australia is objectively measuring its performance across a number of social, environmental and economic indicators.

Short-term outcomes

  • The cellular agriculture industry in Australia has a monitoring and evaluation mechanism that highlights the performance of companies against relevant and appropriate benchmarks.
  • There is an open and accessible platform to transparently disseminate monitoring and reporting metrics for Australia's cellular agriculture industry.

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