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Monthly Archives: February 2015

GFS students’ visit to Brendan Smart Farm: Insights into a South Australian modern family farm

Six Master of Global Food and Agricultural Business (MGFAB) visited Brendon Smart’s farm properties on 12th February 2015. Brendon is a ‘multi-enterprise’ farmer from Keith, in South Australia’s upper South East and about 225 kilometres from Adelaide. The Smart Group runs several thousand livestock among extensive cereal cropping and irrigation operations. The farm visit was […]

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Australia – Latin America Symposium – February 2015

Over the past decade Australia’s trade and investment relationship with Latin America has increased significantly, however, global challenges in the 21st century will redefine our engagement, and refocus greater effort on innovative solutions for the Food- Water-Energy Nexus through collaboration. Join the Latin American Diplomatic Corps, distinguished business leaders, and some of South Australia’s leading […]

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GFS PhD students research activities: From investment games with rice farmers to ‘milking’ data from dairy farm households

Global Food Studies PhD students Rio Lawas Maligalig and Camilo Esparza Garcia spent their end of the year period with some exciting research activities. Here are their stories. Rio Lawas Maligalig: Experiments to elicit rice farmers’ preference I attended last November 20-21, 2014 the Breeders’ Expert Elicitation Workshop in Laguna, Philippines. The workshop was done […]

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