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A city without Water
Imagine waking up in the morning and realising you have to drive a few kilometres and queue in a line to access the most basic need of life – WATER! Sadly, this will soon be reality for residents of Cape Town, South Africa, as what is termed ‘Day Zero’ comes closer; the day when a […]
The Happy Seeder
A few weeks ago there was a cricket match in New Delhi between India and Sri Lanka where some of the Sri Lankan players and Indian players fell sick while playing due to the poor air quality and smog around the cricket stadium. While the game went on, it was a stark reality check for […]
GFAR researchers recognised for Executive Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research
What better way to end the year than to know that three of our Centre for Global Food and Resources (GFAR) researchers are being recognised by the Faculty of the Professions Executive Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research. At the celebration ceremony held on Friday 15 December three of our researchers Dr. Adam Loch, Dr. […]
Sharing, Charging and Managing Water
Professor Mike Young, Centre for Global Food and Resources at the University of Adelaide was invited to speak on ‘experiences in sharing access to, charging for and managing water’ at the 2017 Lower Mekong Public Policy Initiative (LMPPI) Forum on Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources held in Da Nang, Vietnam. The LMPPI supports inter-disciplinary research, […]
Celebrating Our Alumnus
The Centre for Global Food and Resources (GFAR) has been producing young leaders in agriculture ever since our Masters program was introduced. In this week’s blog we want to celebrate one such young leader who has gone from strength to strength in his career in international agriculture development. Raghavan is a graduate of our Masters […]
Face-to-face with Sustainable Value Chains
Ensuring value chains are sustainable in the long term is an important aspect of modern agribusiness management. Along with ever changing market dynamics to the challenges posed by climate change issues, modern agribusinesses have a lot to deal with on a day-to-day basis. The Centre for Global Food and Resources (GFAR) hosted academics from University […]
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Research Tuesdays: Eating Our Words
Talk is often cheap. But when it comes to our food choices, its value is seemingly in free-fall. Professor Wendy Umberger, Executive Director, Centre for Global Food and Resources at the University of Adelaide recent research reveals a vast gulf between what we say we want to eat, and what we actually buy. Around a […]
GFAR Political Involvement and Advice
Members of our Centre often provide policy advice to politicians. The last couple of months has been busier than usual. Firstly, on 26th July Tony Burke (the shadow Federal Minister for the Arts, for Environment and Water, and for Citizenship and Multicultural Australia) requested to visit GFAR for a research briefing. Professor Wendy Umberger provided […]
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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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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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