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GFAR’s success in University of Adelaide Interdisciplinary Research Funding Scheme
The recent round for the University of Adelaide Interdisciplinary Research Fund for 2018 was announced last week (Oct 12), and the Centre for Global Food and Resources (GFAR) had considerable success. Our Centre had a 50% acceptance rate for projects that included our staff, which was considerably higher than the 11% average acceptance rate for […]
GFAR at Australia’s Asian Future Summit 2017: Innovation as Competition
Prof Wendy Umberger, Executive Director of the Centre for Global Food and Resources, was an invited speaker at The Economist’s Innovation as Competition: Australia’s Asian Future Summit 2017, held in Sydney on the 1st of September. The summit was attended by policymakers, leaders in regional and Australian business, academics and pioneering entrepreneurs, and included a […]
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GFAR at the 2017 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting: Part 3
In the final 2017 AAEA blog post, we hear about some of the pre- and post-conference workshops and meetings attended by Dr Daniel Gregg and Professor Wendy Umberger. Dr Gregg took part in the computational methods and experimental economics workshops held immediately before and after the conference. The computational methods workshop provided insights into analysing […]
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GFAR at the 2017 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting: Part 2
Picking up where we left off yesterday… In the Monday afternoon poster session, GFAR PhD student, Rio L. Maligalig, presented her poster titled “Farmers’ preferences for varietal trait improvements: The case of rice farmers in Nueva Ecija, Philippines”. In her study, Rio used the Investment Game Application (a newly developed game for eliciting trait preferences) […]
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GFAR at the 2017 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting: Part 1
A group of five GFAR staff and PhD students (Prof. Wendy Umberger, Dr Daniel Gregg, Dr Sharmina Ahmed, Rio L. Maligalig and Jesmin Ara Rupa) participated in this year’s Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting in Chicago, held July 30 – Aug 1. The meeting was an excellent opportunity to learn from outstanding […]
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MDBA Chair speaks to Water Security and Governance course
The Hon. Neil Andrew, AO former member for Wakefield in the federal Parliament and current Chair of the Murray–Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) was kind enough to speak to GFAB Masters students in the Water Security and Governance course this week. Neil became Chair of the MDBA in 2015, and many upstream water users were initially […]
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The Digital Data Revolution
Last week, Prof Wendy Umberger, Rohan Yargop and Jack Hetherington, from The Centre for Global Food and Resources (GFAR) attended the 2017 Crawford Fund Conference in Canberra. Read on for Rohan’s account of the conference. By 2025, the world will produce 180 Zettabytes (that is 180 plus 21 zeros) of data. That is enough data that […]
A Day in the Adelaide Hills
Read on for an account of Day 4 of the short course on Food Standards and Regulations Familiarisation, led by The Centre for Global Food and Resources. The IA-CEPA delegates braved a cold winter morning to visit local businesses in the beautiful Adelaide Hills. The morning kicked off with a visit to the processing facility […]
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Day 3 of the short course on Food Standards and Regulations Familiarisation
The daily coverage of the short course on Food Standards and Regulations Familiarisation, led by The Centre for Global Food and Resources, continues below. South Australia is renowned internationally for its premium food and wine products produced in a clean and green environment. Today, the IA-CEPA delegates had the opportunity to listen to some of […]
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Building academic capacity in Aceh, Indonesia
Dr Adam Loch, Senior Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow at The Centre for Global Food and Resources (GFAR), shares his recent Indonesian experience. Last week I travelled to the very tip of Indonesia with Dr Barry Elsey from Entrepreneurship, Commercialisation and Innovation Centre (ECIC) to visit two Universities in Aceh Province; Universitas Teuku Umar (UTU) […]
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