There’s no “I” in collaborate:
Why WAARC matters in agricultural R&D
In a state as vast and varied as Western Australia, collaboration isn’t just helpful, it’s essential. Nowhere is this truer than in agricultural research and development (R&D), where the challenges are big, the opportunities are significant, and the players are many. For too long, WA’s research landscape has been fragmented – incredible scientists from strong institutions working in parallel, but not always in sync. The WA Agricultural Research Collaboration (WAARC) was established to change that.
WAARC was never intended to be just another funding body. Its purpose is to act as a strategic investment platform – one that fosters genuine collaboration, attracts new funding into the state, and ensures agricultural R&D is designed with WA’s needs at its core. It is, in many ways, a cultural shift as much as a structural one.