Hort Innovations Australia – Strategic Investment Plans

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Client

Hort Innovations Australia

 

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Hort Innovations Australia undertook the development of Strategic Investment Plans (SIP) for 32 horticulture sectors. These SIPs guide the allocation of research investment funds for typically the 5 years.

 

APPROACH

CIS were engaged to support the development of SIP for all 32 major horticulture sectors. For the largest sector CIS led the development of the SIP. This included; meeting with major growers and stakeholders from across the country; the review of past and current projects to understand where benefits had been greatest and why, the development of an evidence base to support recommendations, the testing of these recommendations with key stakeholders, modelling the likely economic impacts of this investment, suggested programs of work, illustrative projects and the development of tangible measures of performance the industry should expect as a result of the SIP.

 

RESULTS

The SIP saw the allocations of scarce investment funds focused on areas of highest impact and priority. This has seen funding spread from traditional on farm productivity issues to include funding to support the development of products that are better aligned to consumers changing needs, improvements in productivity along the supply chain, a focus on securing export expansion, the improvement of on farm productivity and the support for people and systems that support them in making decisions related to their farms.

 
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