Building Trust in Australian Agricultural Traceability and Credentials in Southeast Asia Grant Round

Overview

The Building Trust in Australian Agricultural Traceability and Credentials in Southeast Asia Grant Round (the grant round) provides the opportunity for successful applicants to contribute to improving traceability for Australian and regional agricultural industries and consumers, and will support collaborative agricultural traceability projects that will assist implementation activities under the National Agricultural Traceability Strategy 2023 To 2033 (the strategy). The purpose of the grant round is to strengthen trust in Australia’s commercial agricultural traceability systems and robust credentials in our region by funding activities that increase supply chain transparency, build regional capability business-to-business and support development of sustainable, resilient and data enabled supply chains. Projects developed under this grant round will facilitate this by communicating and showcasing Australian supply chain approaches to data-enabled agricultural traceability systems and credentials, as well as online tools that provide research and modelling to producers and other industry participants about: market intelligence, consumer trends and commercial trading partner requirements. Projects will foster mutually beneficial outcomes, shared learning, innovation, capacity building, and technical expert engagement in Australia and Southeast Asia markets (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor Leste, and Vietnam) and provide mechanisms for practical collaboration amongst producers and supply chain participants to support free flowing agricultural trade and availability of Australian agricultural products in regional markets. The grant round will award grants totalling $4 million (exclusive of GST) - $3.13 million in 2023-?24 and $0.87 million in 2024-25. The program opened for applications on 15 February 2024, and applications must be received by 9:00PM AEDT on 27 March 2024.