Fast-moving changes in technologies, markets, the climate, geopolitics, societies and levels of food security pose major challenges and opportunities for the agricultural sector.

Responding to these challenges, UQ researchers advance the triple bottom-line objectives of economic, social and environmental sustainability through research and training excellence, innovations and partnerships.

With expertise in farming, marketing, financial and supply chain management, our agribusiness researchers work on whole-of-chain strategies for creating a sustainable and competitive food system.

Our social scientists investigate, design and facilitate gender-inclusive processes, practice change, and multistakeholder agricultural innovation platforms.

Our agricultural economists deliver grounded analyses and tools that support decision-making in agricultural and natural resource management and policy, trade and international development.

Through multidisciplinary collaborations with farmers, firms, industry bodies, policymakers, development agencies and researchers, we strive to positively impact people’s daily lives, society and the environment.

Our people

  • Professor Ammar Abdul Aziz

    Professor & School Director, Higher Degree Research
    School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability
  • Dr Rajendra Adhikari

    Senior Lecturer in Agribusiness
    School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability
  • Associate Professor Angela Dean

    Lecturer & Associate Professor
    School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability
  • Mr Jack Dorries

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability
  • Mr Robert Harrison

    Research Fellow in Forest Management, Policy and Economics
    School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability
  • Dr Adam Komarek

    Senior Lecturer in Agribusiness
    School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability
  • Dr Julius Kotir

    Adjunct Senior Fellow & Lecturer
    School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability
  • Dr Zannie Langford

    Senior Lecturer
    School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability
  • Dr Gomathy Palaniappan

    Senior Research Fellow & Senior Research Fellow
    School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability
  • Dr Risti Permani

    Senior Lecturer in Agribusiness
    School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability
  • Dr Salman Sarwar

    Research Fellow
    School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability
  • Dr Tim Sun

    Senior Research Fellow
    School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability
  • Associate Professor Severine van Bommel

    Associate Professor in Rural Dev. & Agriculture
    School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability
  • Dr Tyron Venn

    Senior Research Fellow
    School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability
  • Dr Dong Wang

    Research Fellow
    School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability
  • Dr Bradd Witt

    Senior Lecturer & Senior Lecturer
    School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability
  • Dr Jing Zhang

    Research Fellow
    School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability