The report provides detailed analysis of the fresh fruit and vegetable supply chains into Sydney markets at Flemington.

This report examines possible policy responses to the challenges and pressures within the broader economy that threaten the ongoing viability and competitiveness of food processing in Australia.

To date, the Australian food supply chain has demonstrated a high degree of resilience, but there are factors on both the demand and supply sides of the chain that are decreasing future resilience.

This paper began as a series of workshop discussions hosted by Future Directions International on the subject of ‘Global Food Supply and Demand to 2050.’ The workshop, the fourth in the series, was attended by several eminent Australian academics and thinkers.

This paper explores a hypothesis for the location of firms in a particular industrial cluster and posits that the influence of local economic development strategies have their limitations.