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Farm Sustainability Dashboard

The Farm Sustainability Dashboard has been designed to improve industry best practice and meet evolving community expectations. It has been created for business owners and is appropriate for farms of all sizes.

Sustainability Framework Process

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Sustainability Framework Process

Community Survey

The sustainability framework community survey has just finished its sixth-year of research, examining the relationship between the egg industry and the Australian community.

All Australian residents aged 18 years or older were invited to participate. The community survey covered the impacts and contributions of the egg industry across areas such as the environment, animal welfare, food security, and livelihoods.

Completing the survey provided an opportunity for the community to inform the Australian egg industry’s decision making. Alongside the open invitation for community members to have their say, views from a sample of around 5,000 Australians were also collected.

The 2023 community survey is now now closed and results available.

The 2023 sustainability framework community survey has once again explored the attitudes of Australians toward the Australian egg industry. It contained a range of questions asking the community their opinions on a wide variety of topics related to the egg industry. The results of this survey are again being used to support the implementation of a Sustainability Framework by Australian Eggs for the egg industry, and informing a national conversation about the egg industry in Australia.

The Framework

The Australian Egg Industry Sustainability Framework aims to generate more productive engagement with the Australian community and drive continuous improvement within the industry.

Transparency is the cornerstone of building community trust and acceptance as people want access to accurate information to know how their food is produced or products manufactured.

Community expectations are constantly evolving and this extends beyond mainstream consumer purchasing decisions to much broader questions about how industries conduct themselves.

In response to this dynamic, Australian Eggs invited CSIRO to design a comprehensive research program that has been in motion for over three years. The research is intended to provide the egg industry with a better understanding of community attitudes, and communities with a better understanding of the egg industry.

The roles

The process is being driven by Australian Eggs and the initial research program was conducted independently by the CSIRO. The research has now been continued by VoconIQ. Once each research cycle is complete, the research is then given to the egg industry to help guide the Sustainability Framework Report.

Community

The community is the Australian public. The process explores community views on egg industry issues through a statistically representative sample of over 5,000 people as well as an ‘open call’ to participate for anyone that is interested.

VoconIQ

The research is being conducted by engagement science company Voconiq, spun out of Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO in 2019, and will explore community attitudes towards the egg industry across a broad range of topics, including food security, biosecurity, traceability, animal welfare and environmental impacts.

Australian Eggs

Australian Eggs is the research and development corporation for the egg industry and it will support VoconIQ by providing information about the industry and making the research outputs publicly available. After community research is completed, Australian Eggs will engage with industry stakeholders to ensure the Sustainability Framework Report has their input.

Egg Industry

The egg industry includes egg farming businesses and other businesses along the supply chain such as veterinarians, feed companies and representative bodies. Australian Eggs commits to transparent reporting of the research findings so interested parties can understand why and how the egg industry is responding to the research.

The research

In 2020, the CSIRO research team built on the findings from the Australian Egg Industry Research Report released in 2018 and 2019 to obtain a deeper understanding of community attitudes to the egg industry.

The research was conducted using a survey of Australians through a statistically representative sample of over 5,000 people as well as an ‘open call’ to participate for anyone that is interested. The goal is to examine industry issues, both positive and negative, from multiple angles to understand the values driving community attitudes.

In 2020, the CSIRO extended the research process in two important ways:

  • The survey refined and repeated key measures from the 2018 and 2019 surveys that were found to be central to community confidence in the Australian egg Industry, to allow comparison over time
  • The survey included new aspects to better understand community attitudes on the priority issues identified through the research program, as well as current and emerging issues, such as COVID-19.

2023 Report

The Australian Egg Industry Community Research Report is available by clicking on the image below or via this link. The report describes the key findings from a national survey conducted by Voconiq.

The community survey included a representative sample of Australians collected through a research panel and an open sample that accessed the survey through the Voconiq website. This report is an overview of the community research findings for ease of access. 

Learn more and have your say

If you have any questions about the Sustainability Framework, please get in touch via [E-Mail not displayed] or (02) 9409 6999.

To find out more about the Australian egg industry click here.

Want to see what an egg farm looks like? Take this interactive 360 degree tour to see how eggs are produced in Australia.

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