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Is Made & Grown Australia’s Next Alt.Protein Play

Made and Grown White Paper Visual Media

Alt.Protein 25 conference trend emergence as Australia’s bioeconomy has entered its NextGen Food moment. This new white paper by Cellular Agriculture Australia and ANU reframes food biotechnology as not just an economic lever, but a national security imperative. It argues food sovereignty, via precision fermentation, plant molecular farming and cell cultivation, must be treated as strategic defence infrastructure.


The paper identifies five pressure points - policy inertia, regulatory lag, R&D underfunding, infrastructure gaps, and capital misalignment. Yet it also points to massive upside with a USD $100 billion global potential by 2040, regional biohubs in Mackay, and cross-industry upskilling from mining to biomanufacturing. The signal is clear - Australia can’t just grow food; it must make it.


So, the next debate is semantic but strategic. Does “Alt.Protein” even capture it anymore? “NextGen Food” may better describe an era where food, fuel and fibre converge in the bioreactor rather than the paddock.


DOWNLOAD Full .pdf CellAg_Australia White Paper Below.



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