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Monthly Archives: April 2016

Check out Australia’s natural assets

For the first time, the Australian Bureau of Statistics has released data on the changing value of Australia’s environmental assets. Over the last 10 years, the environmental assets that support our economy have doubled in value. Australia’s minerals, forests, farmland and clean water are now worth an estimated $6 trillion! ABC news recently published an article on the […]

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Overweight or obese? Are food deserts really to blame?

Last week, the newest staff member to join the GFS team, Dr Di Zeng, presented his research on ‘Food Desert and Weight Outcome: Disentangling Confounding Mechanisms’. Di has recently moved to Adelaide from the U.S. and the seminar was a great insight into his work. Here is what we learnt… In his talk, Di highlighted […]

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The Changing Face of the GFS Blog

In both sad but exciting news, we say goodbye to Dr Risti Permani as Global Food Studies blog manager. Risti started the blog in 2013 and has skilfully maintained it until now. Risti will be moving to Jakarta, Indonesia, in July to take on an esteemed Senior Economist role. Congratulations Risti! In preparation for her move, Risti […]

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