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Monthly Archives: July 2017

Strengthening Australia-Indonesia Collaboration

The Centre for Global Food and Resources (GFAR) is playing a key role in building enhanced collaboration between Australian and Indonesian Government agencies and private sector by leading a two week short course on Food Standards and Regulations Familiarisation as part of the IA-CEPA (Indonesia – Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement) negotiation early outcome. A high […]

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The Eradication of Red Imported Fire Ants (RIFA) & Biosecurity Economics

Yesterday was a good day. Yes, I work in academia but as much as possible I make sure the work I do has some relevance to reality. I was recently part of the review of the Red Imported Fire Ants (RIFA) eradication campaign, chaired by Bill Magee at the CRC for Plant Biosecurity. (Report here). […]

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The Basin Plan, its implementation, its enforcement & cotton

Dr. David Adamson, ARC DECRA fellow at The Centre for Global Food and Resources, shares his thoughts on the Basin Plan, its implementation, its enforcement and cotton. Well the 4 Corners report has gotten things interesting around the office. I’m going to start with the easiest thing first, cotton. Australian agriculture is not restricted by land, […]

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Save the date! 2018 AARES Annual Conference

The Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES) conference is coming to Adelaide. Put it in your diary for 6-9 February 2018. The 2018 theme is: Abundance in an Era of Scarcity? Challenges and Opportunities for Australasian Agriculture, Environment, Food, Resources and Agribusiness. Each year the conference aims to highlight the latest economic research and policy innovations in […]

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New Staff and Students joining GFAR

In July and August 2017, we will have five new additions to The Centre for Global Food and Resources (GFAR). This will be a mix of staff and students, who introduce themselves below. “My name is Jack Hetherington and I am coming to the Centre for Global Food and Resources after working at the Australian Centre […]

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