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Monthly Archives: September 2013
Cattle to bring Indonesia, Australia closer?
*The article was first published by the Jakarta Post on 26 September 2013. The Indonesian government has approved the purchase of 1 million hectares of Australian land to breed its “own” cattle to be transported back to feedlots at home. Whilst the plan still needs to be approved by Australia’s Foreign Investment Review Board, it […]
Promoting research on the ICT and secondary ASEAN cities
The Global Food Studies staff, Dr Xiaobo He, recently attended a two-day explanatory workshop ‘Southeast Asia: Competitiveness, Technology, Secondary Cities, and ASEAN’s Future’ on 20-21 September 2013 hosted by Lee Kuan Yew (LKY) School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. The purpose of the workshop was to identify and explore the opportunities […]
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Value adding tamarind in Vanuatu
The Global Food Studies staff, Craig Johns and Camilo Esparza Garcia, recently visited Vanuatu to attend the tamarind inception workshop and conducted a number of value chain interviews focussing on local retailers in collaboration with the Vanuatu Department of Industry. The trip also provided an opportunity to meet up with their Canarium project partners and start […]
