Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI) Campuses

Bundaberg campus focuses on subtropical horticulture, including macadamia, avocado, and vegetable crops, with research in pest and disease control.

• Horticultural crop improvement
• Subtropical fruit breeding
• IPM strategies
• PhD in horticulture
• Post-harvest technology

Supports Wide Bay growers.

The Ecosciences Precinct campus collaborates with DAF on environmental and agricultural research, specializing in ecology, pest management, and ecosystem services related to agriculture.

• Ecosystem modeling and biodiversity
• Insect pest control strategies
• Research training in environmental sciences
• PhD in agricultural ecology
• Climate impact on crops

Offers interdisciplinary programs combining agriculture with environmental management.

The Gatton campus is a major regional hub for agricultural education and research, hosting UQ and QAAFI programs in animal and crop sciences with extensive field facilities.

• Centre for Animal Science: tropical livestock
• Centre for Crop Science: grain and forage crops
• Undergraduate and HDR agriculture degrees
• Veterinary and animal health
• Sustainable farming systems

Emphasizes practical farming and research training.

This specialist campus at the Health and Food Sciences Precinct focuses on food safety, nutrition, and processing technologies, co-located with DAF labs for advanced analytical work.

• Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences: food technology
• Analytical chemistry and microbiology
• PhD in food innovation
• Nutraceuticals and functional foods
• Sensory science training

Key site for students in food science degrees and research.

Hermitage specializes in grain crop research, breeding, and pathology in the Darling Downs region, supporting PhD projects on wheat, sorghum, and barley improvement.

• Crop breeding and genetics
• Disease resistance studies
• Field trial management
• Agronomy research training
• Climate adaptation

Focuses on dryland cropping systems.

This facility specializes in grain crops, peanuts, and horticulture in the Burnett region, offering research training in sorghum and legume improvement.

• Crop science for grains
• Peanut breeding
• Soil health research
• Field-based PhD projects
• Weed management

Regional focus on sustainable cropping.

The Leslie facility targets grain legume and cereal research, including chickpea, wheat, and pest management in the Toowoomba region.

• Grain science and technology
• Nematode and disease research
• Crop rotation studies
• HDR projects in pulses
• Precision agriculture

Key for Darling Downs crop production research.

The Long Pocket campus, featuring the Elkhorn Building, focuses on horticultural and plant science research, providing facilities for controlled environment studies and plant propagation. It supports higher degree research in tropical and subtropical crops.

• Centre for Horticultural Science: fruit and vegetable improvement
• Plant physiology and pathology
• PhD projects on crop resilience
• Greenhouse and glasshouse management training
• Biotechnology applications in horticulture

This site emphasizes practical research skills for students pursuing careers in agribusiness and plant sciences.

Mareeba supports tropical agriculture research in far north Queensland, focusing on mango, lychee, and sugarcane.

• Tropical horticulture
• Fruit physiology
• Pest management in tropics
• PhD projects on tableland crops
• Water management

Essential for FNQ primary industries.

Maroochy campus leads in tropical horticulture, banana breeding, and protected cropping research on the Sunshine Coast.

• Centre for Horticultural Science: banana and pineapple
• Vegetable pathology
• Protected agriculture
• HDR in tropical fruits
• Mutation breeding

Key for subtropical horticulture innovation.

The St Lucia campus at the Queensland Bioscience Precinct serves as QAAFI's headquarters and a hub for cutting-edge research in agriculture and food innovation. It specializes in molecular biology, genomics, and interdisciplinary studies across crop, animal, nutrition, and horticultural sciences, hosting PhD, MPhil, and honours students in advanced research projects.

• Centre for Crop Science: plant genetics and breeding
• Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences: food processing and nutrition
• Centre for Animal Science: livestock genetics
• High-throughput sequencing and bioinformatics courses
• Plant pathology and pest management research training

Students engage in hands-on lab work and field trials, contributing to sustainable agriculture solutions.