AgTrace Australia: Summary Report
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CHARTING THE PATH AHEAD
AgTrace Australia summary report establishes the need for enhanced traceability and outlines how the Australian Agriculture Traceability Protocol (AATP) can achieve it.
This summary report encapsulates work completed between 2023-2025, during which Food Agility was supported by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. In that period, AgTrace demonstrated the ‘art of the possible’ in applying digital product passports containing verifiable credentials in three export scenario proofs of concept: Red Meat to the EU, Cherries to China, and Canola to the US.
A crowning achievement of AgTrace is the creation of the AATP. It is a world‑first, sector specific extension of the United Nations Transparency Protocol and provides the framework pertaining to the use of DPPs in the context of agricultural products into markets both domestic and international. Prior to AgTrace, no agriculture specific extension of the UNTP existed and developing the AATP became a critical enabler to ensure the success of each POC and to guide future developments of our national traceability capability.
The AATP provides a common, interoperable framework for how agricultural data can be captured, verified, shared, and reused across supply chains. It is designed to be scalable, decentralised, and technology agnostic, giving farmers and supply chain actors control of their data while meeting emerging regulatory and market demands.
