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The 2012 Harcourt Lecture: “Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Governance”
The School of Economics is proud to present our 2012 speaker, Professor Avinash Dixit, The John J. F. Sherrerd ’52 University Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He is also a Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Economics at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, and a Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. All are welcome to […]
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High School Students get a taste of Asia
The Economics Student Conference set out to answer questions like, What is Economics? and Where can it take me? for an audience of year 12 high-school students from secondary schools across the state. They were encouraged to continue with their economics studies and introduced to the wide range of career paths which are opened up […]
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Podcast – Prof Pardey, Agricultural Investment and R & D Returns
Listen to Prof Phil Pardey from the University of Minnesota speak on research compiled with Prof Julian Alston, UC-Davis on how agricultural investors get their biggest return from their R & D investment.
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Video – Prof Pinstrup-Andersen, 10 Action Issues for Food Security
Watch World Food Prize Laureate Prof Per Pinstrup-Andersen speak on Food Security Issues to 2050: What are the biggest issues needing action and whose job is it? Presented on February 13, 2012 at the University of Adelaide’s Forum on Food Security
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Podcast – Dr Nick Austin, ACIAR, New Approaches in International Agricultural Research
Listen to a recording of Dr Nick Austin, CEO of ACIAR, speaking about new approaches in international agricultural research
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Podcast – Prof Findlay, Reframing the Agenda
Listen to a recording of Christopher Findlay, Executive Dean of Professions, University of Adelaide speaking about reframing the food, nutrition, health, and agriculture R and D agenda.
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Podcast – Dr Will Martin, National and global food security
Listen to Dr Will Martin, World Bank, speaking about national and global food security: what roles for trade and trade policies? Slides National and global food security, Dr Will Martin View more presentations from food2050
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Food Security Forum Wrap Up
Prof Kym Anderson’s wrap up comments A stellar line up of speakers and a capacity audience of over 200 delegates and speakers from 16 different countries and 5 Australian states ‘reframed’ the global agriculture and food research agenda. Research and policy priorities for agriculture, food and nutrition research were set and a call to action […]
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Podcast – Prof Pinstrup-Anderson – 10 Action Issues
Click here to download the Podcast Prof Per Pinstrup-Anderson, World Food Prize Laureate, Cornell University and University of Copenhagen Food Security Issues to 2050: What are the biggest issues needing action and whose job is it? 10 Action Issues
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Welcome to the Global Food Systems Blog
Global Food Systems 2050 is a new research coalition which sits within the Waite Research Institute and the School of Economics to provide a systems perspective on current food policy issues. It will be the Asia-Pacific’s leading research consortium in the area of Food Economics, Business and Policy partnering with existing research strengths across faculties […]
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