For decades, Australian agriculture has operated within a set of conditions that quietly shaped its success - stable geopolitics, expanding global trade, predictable markets, and steady productivity gains.

That era is ending.

In this conversation, Tim Hunt joins Oli Le Lievre to unpack the global forces reshaping food and agriculture right now, from geopolitics and trade fragmentation to climate volatility and rapid technological change. With a career spanning banking, economics, and international agriculture, Tim brings a clear-eyed, global perspective on why these shifts are structural, not cyclical - and what that means for producers, agribusiness leaders, and the wider food system.

Recorded just one week out from evokeAG 2026, where Tim and Oli will be part of the MC team alongside Liz Brennan, this episode is about making sense of a changing world - and asking how Australian agriculture adapts, evolves, and leads in what comes next.

In This Episode, We Explore

• Why the conditions that built modern Australian agriculture are no longer guaranteed
• How geopolitics, trade, climate, and technology are colliding to reshape food systems
• Why these shifts represent long-term structural change, not short-term cycles
• The role realism plays in building resilient farm businesses and industries
• Why agriculture sits at the centre of global economics, politics, and culture
• How a top-down view of the world complements on-farm decision-making
• Technology as agriculture’s most important tailwind in an increasingly volatile era
• What real value-adding looks like beyond branding and provenance
• Why adaptation, not protection, has always underpinned Australia’s agricultural success
• The role events like evokeAG play in helping the industry respond collectively

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