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Top-up scholarship for GFAR PhD student

Research Associate, Nikki Dumbrell will be commencing her PhD at GFAR in late June. On 5 April, Nikki was announced as the inaugural winner of the Thomas Foods International/Playford Trust PhD Scholarship. Nikki was in Vietnam for the ACIAR-funded project “Towards more profitable and sustainable vegetable farming systems in north western Vietnam” on the awards […]

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Towards more profitable and sustainable vegetable farming systems in north-western Vietnam

The GFAR -led Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) – funded project “Towards more profitable and sustainable vegetable farming systems in north-western Vietnam” is drawing to an end in 2018. In April the project team presented progress and research findings to ACIAR and three independent reviewers at the end of a project review workshop. […]

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Happy Seeder – a catalyst to reduce environmental degradation

Today is World Environment Day. Preventing environmental degradation is critical to sustain agricultural production systems, curtail pollution and improving human health. In the past few blog posts, we have mentioned the issue of stubble burning in North West India and the harmful impact on the environment, which in turn affects soil and human health. A […]

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