Farmers 2 Founders 2021-22 Sponsorship

Farmers2Founders

  • Project code: PRO-015338

  • Project stage: Closed

  • Project start date: Sunday, June 27, 2021

  • Project completion date: Wednesday, June 29, 2022

  • National Priority: AFI - AgriFood Innovation

Summary

Farmers2Founders helps build agrifood tech and innovation solutions that deliver commercial benefit and industry impact across agrifood & fibre. This includes helping more producers to fast-track the development, commercialisation and uptake of agrifood tech and innovation solutions that deliver benefit at both individual farm business and industry level. Activities include:

Starting and scaling more businesses across agrifood tech and value-adding that capture value back on farm
Accelerating the journey to commercialisation for agrifood tech and innovations that deliver measurable industry impact
Creating a large and visible community of innovative, progressive producers who actively collaborate with the broader agrifood tech and innovation ecosystem
Building a broad network of mentors, experts and partnerships regionally and nationally
Developing targeted communications to significantly increase awareness of the opportunities for producers to engage
Scaling the F2F program footprint (including via digital platforms) to increase the critical mass of innovative producers
Ensuring recruitment & selection processes and program design engages those most likely to grow and create impact.

Program

AgriFood Innovation

Research Organisation

Farmers2Founders