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CSIRO's Project Cassandra

If you are studying the option strand, Contemporary food issues - Marketplace, you will learn about trends in the marketplace. The CSIRO has established a project to look at food industry trends of the 21st century - Project Cassandra. This project predicts many changes to the way we obtain food items and to the types of foods we might consume.

Outcomes

This material addresses aspects of the following syllabus outcome:
H2.1 The student evaluates the relationship between food, its production, consumption, promotion and health.

Source: Board of Studies NSW, Stage 6 Food Technology Syllabus, Preliminary and HSC Courses (1999)

Activity

There are two very good media releases on the CSIRO web site that will give you an overview of the project.

Foods for the future (CSIRO Media Release,5th April 1999)

Looking forward to future fare (CSIRO Media Release, 30 November 1999)

This media release looks at the structure and format of the two-day conference, Advanced Australian Fare, held on Monday 6th December 1999 at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.

Read Foods for the Future and Looking forward to future fare.

1. What are consumer expectations of foods in the 21st century?
2. How might the Australian food industry address these expectations?