Morning Keynote Session; Visy's Contribution to Food Security

Possibly Australia’s greatest contribution to global food security is through the production and export of safe, nutritious, sustainablyproduced food, to meet the rising demand across Asia and beyond. We need to promote, protect and extend Australia’s reputation as a high quality, safe food supplier. Visy supports its food industry customers to do well, which will fuel Australia’s capacity to feed 200 million people directly. We can also help feed a further 800 million with the application of our skills, R&D and business services. Supporting our food customers revitalises the food processing sector and tackles food waste by protecting food from deteriorating, which could double the effective calorie delivery from the current level of agricultural production. Reducing food waste by better packaging that extends food shelf life also adds value to our customers and hence to society. Applying business know-how, in collaborative partnership with researchers and farming practitioners, is an important key to achieving this goal.