Appendix 3: Summary of desk research sources

Desktop research synthesised related research and identified data sources, including:

• Early A2EP work on the Food Value Chain (Jutsen et al., 2017a; Jutsen et al., 2017b)

• RACE for 2030 Opportunity Assessment Value Chain (B1) report (Transforming energy productivity through value chains. Final report of opportunity assessment for research theme B1) and associated documents and analysis (Denham et al, 2021)

• Household Spending data (ABS, 2023)

• Revenue and value-added data from CSIRO, ABS, DAFF

• RACE for 2030 CRC Industry 4.0 for energy productivity – Opportunity Assessment for Research Theme B2, Final Report, (Trianni et al, 2022)

• CSIRO analysis of future paths for the Australian food sector (Wynn & Sebastian, 2019)

• Activities of the Fight Food Waste CRC (FFW, 2023) and FIAL (Biene et al., 2021)

• A review of recent literature on technologies and opportunities to improve energy productivity in the food value chain and application of value chains and potential synergies between emerging drivers of change within the food value chain (for details see Appendix 4)

• A literature review of relevant energy productivity measures and food value chain research

• Review of Climate-KIC systems innovation methodology and related research (Climate-KIC, 2023)