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Monthly Archives: June 2017

Agribusiness Webinar Wed 5 July 6.15pm-7pm

Agribusiness is a growing and dynamic industry both domestically and globally.The job prospects and opportunities within private and public sectors are fantastic. You are in good company to hear first hand from our leading academic and industry experts. Program Director Craig Johns, Associate Director of Agribusiness Innovation at the Centre for Global Food and Resources, […]

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Attend the Goyder Institute’s Water Forum to hear about the latest research from The Centre for Global Food and Resources

On Tuesday the 4th of July, A/Prof Sarah Wheeler will present some of GFAR’s latest research on farm exit intentions in the Murray-Darling Basin, at the Goyder Institute’s Water Forum. This research is from her ARC Future Fellowship, and has just been published in AJARE with Dr Alec Zuo. See the full program for the […]

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Two new research positions available at The Centre for Global Food and Resources

We are proud to announce that The Centre for Global Food and Resources has just advertised for two new research positions. The first one is for a Research Associate, Level A, 2 year contract, to work on a project involving a variety of research partners. Further details are here: http://careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/496933/university-postdoctoral-fellow Please talk to Patrick for more details. […]

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Economic Instruments and Water Reform: Conference and Paper

  At the recent XVI World Water Congress in Cancun, Mexico The Centre for Global Food and Resources (GFAR) organised a special session titled: Charges vs. buyback: who pays for water ecosystems restoration? The objective of this session was to examine the role that economic instruments (e.g. water pricing and charges, ecosystem services payments, voluntary […]

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The Centre for Global Food and Resources receives 2 of 12 Women’s Research Excellence Awards!

Last week, Dr. Lenka Malek and Dr. Ying Xu, Research Fellows at The Centre for Global Food and Resources, each won a 2017 Academic Women’s Research Excellence Award (WREA) valued at $5,000. The WREA was established by The University of Adelaide Office of the Vice-Chancellor in partnership with the Gender, Equity and Diversity Committee and […]

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O-tree for experimental economics – intensive workshop

The Centre for Global Food and Resources (GFaR) at The University of Adelaide is hosting an intensive workshop on programming and developing computer-based experiments using o-tree between the 28th-30th June 2017. The workshop will be run by Dr Russell Keith-Magee, a highly experienced instructor and developer in the programming languages on which o-tree is based. […]

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