The Critical Path, together with its network of impact partners including advanced technologies and programme design, and sovereign programme management, designed a fully integrated multi-initiative sovereign transformation concept plan & first stage large scale micro farm & future farm centre community resilience development  programme.  This Nexus Security initiative was designed as a model for the ECOWAS nations of West Africa.

 

 

This concept for the transformation of multiple interrelated complex climate-impacted systems (a system-of-systems) at the sovereign ecosystem scale encompasses 8  integrated sovereign initiatives forming a critical pathway to address the 17 Sustainability Goals, ESG and Sendai requirements. Food, water and energy security for 700,000 micro farms and the development of an advanced regenerative agriculture and advanced manufacturing economy.  It includes a major infrastructure utilisation, management & future planning capability as well as the development of exports and education initiatives, jobs creation and youth development.

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A data and technology-driven systems of systems multi-initiative programme to deliver food, water & energy security, strong ecosystem resilience, resource redundancy, and pathways for future development and standard of living uplift.  A 360 View Intelligent Management & Resilience building system designed to create impact from first delivered micro farm, through community and regional hub development, to sovereign initiative scale. Culturally sensitive and including full ecosystem stakeholder engagement and inclusion from micro farmers to Central Government leaders.

Location: Australia

Ecosystem: Regional Rural Agricultural Ecosystem

Imperative: Stabilisation, Recovery & Future Development Pathways

Risks: Water Security, Energy Costs, Trade Losses, Crop Disease, Social, Economic & Environmental, complex and diverse stakeholder ecosystem in and outside region, policy & legislative impacts, investment losses.

The critical path is currently working, together with its technology impact partner Nested Ventures  to assist in addressing a compounding crisis in multiple interconnected complex systems rapidly emerging within in a major agricultural ecosystem in Australia.

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The local agricultural industry has a heavy reliance on water and lacks water security. There are significant impacts of scarcity and rising costs associated with water for production of crops that is of the core risks.  Energy prices and market sector stressors are also negatively affecting most producers across the region and associated businesses and stakeholders.  Economic, social & environmental resilience has been strong however it is losing strength and risks and threats are compounding.  Natural disaster events and imminent risk have and are creating even greater challenge.  Political policy & legislation over water source management is yet another challenge.

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In collaboration with existing cross domain initiatives, TCP is introducing its complex interconnected system (system-of-systems) analysis and design capability, together with an advanced irrigation technology, able to optimise production whilst significantly reducing water and energy use. The programme enables adaptive and innovative crop transition together with reduction in crop disease and associated losses, within the ecosystem solution to assist with resilience building as a first step. 

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We are working with ecosystem stakeholders, supporting the co-creation and development of an integrated regional systems-of-systems critical pathway transformation framework to build resilience and mitigate and manage risk to productivity and sustainability from the threat of natural disasters, both current and predicted.