LISAF’s goal is to find solutions that enable sustainable agriculture that will provide food of the quality and quantity to meet global food challenges in coming decades. La Trobe’s visionary investment in the $288M world-class AgriBio building has cemented its reputation in agriculture and food biosciences. Moreover, La Trobe’s $5B University City of the Future initiative is ensuring further investment in unique infrastructure and capability that will build critical for the future of Australia’s agriculture and food sector.

LISAF's ‘Gut to Paddock’ program runs across six overlapping domains of (1) Farming Systems, Soils and Agronomy, (2) Protected Cropping, (3) Fit for Purpose Seeds, (4) Food, Nutrition & Health and (5) Agri-food business, economic resilience & policy, and (6) Digital Agriculture with the aim to streamline the development, growing and testing of desirable traits in grains (cereals and legumes) to produce sustainable food, generate enduring profitability for growers and deliver real benefits for the community and economy.

They have established partnerships with world renowned researchers, growers, health and nutrition specialists, and leading national and international food producers to enable the research underpinning production that is higher yielding and more nutritious, and innovations in food production to work across all elements of the value chain.