TNQ Drought Hub
James Cook University Australia
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Program: Innovation and Commercialisation

Program Goal

Tropical North Queensland is a producer of intellectual property, technology and technical services in agriculture and agribusiness. This supports the establishment of new agricultural and agribusiness and agtech enterprises servicing regional, national and export markets.

The TNQ Drought Hub Adoption Officers support the delivery of the Innovation and Commercialisation activities.

The Agricultural Innovation Hub accelerated the delivery of I&C activities from 2021-2024 and allowed for the delivery of broader innovation outcomes beyond drought, including for fisheries and aquaculture.

Featured Projects

AgValuate - Understand your innovation readiness

AgValuate is a cutting-edge innovation readiness assessment tool, purpose-built for farmers. Whether you are just beginning to explore digital technologies or looking to enhance existing practices, AgValuate provides insights that matter to your operation.
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Resilience through AgTech Support - the Innovation Pipeline

Innovation and technology offer significant potential to enhance drought preparedness and build social, economic, and environmental resilience in agriculture. However, despite the growing access to AgTech solutions, adoption remains challenging for many farmers, producers, and land managers.
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Technology and Innovation Scanning

To provide producers and extension professionals with an up-to-date, independently assessed catalogue of agtech solutions relevant to on-farm problems.
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AI-Powered Knowledge and Decision Assistance

To support climate-adaptive decision-making in the beef industry by refining and validating BeefVantage, an AI-powered knowledge assistant for extension professionals.
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Adoption Officers

Adoption Officers work across the TNQ Drought Hub's multiple programs to support farmers and their communities to pick up innovative tools and practices to build drought-resilient businesses.
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Agricultural Innovation Hub

The Agricultural Innovation Hub Program supported the uptake of innovation by producers while motivating and encouraging collaboration in the agricultural innovation system.
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Kara-Glenn Worth

program lead

Kara grew up in Far North Queensland with her family operating an organic banana farm in the region. She received a Bachelor of Business (Public Relations) and Bachelor of Media and Communications from Queensland University of Technology in 2015, spent time in the Northern Territory and ran her own Community Growth and Marketing firm in Brisbane before making the move back to the Wet Tropics.

Kara then worked as Head of Engagement and Community with the Australian Agritech Association (AusAgritech) and brings her extensive regional and agrifood tech ecosystem experience to her role as the Program Lead for Innovation and Commercialisation and Transformational Agricultural Systems.

Kara is passionate about regional growth and development and fostering greater collaboration and engagement between farmers, researchers and key ecosystem players in the agrifood supply chain to generate better outcomes for Far North Queensland and beyond.