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Day 2: AARES 2018
Blog post prepared by Jesmin Ara Rupa, PhD student, Centre for Global Food and Resources Day 2 of the AARES conference 2018 in a very warm Adelaide. Read about the day’s events below. The morning started with two Mini-Symposia – one on climate change impacts and migration and the other one on designing conservation auctions […]
Day 1: AARES delegates descend upon the Adelaide Convention Centre
Post by Jack Hetherington Day one of the AARES Conference 2018 kicked off with a welcome to country by Ms Georgina Williams, Kaurna Senior Woman, followed by a speech from the Hon. Jay Weatherill. The conference keynote addresses explored the realms of Supply-Side Environmental Policy with Bard Harstad and making Australia the energy superpower of […]
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AARES 2018 Pre-conference workshops wrap-up and networking
Water, Climate, Food, Wine and Risk! These were the key topics discussed at the pre-conference workshops and the industry forum session in the lead up to the Australasian Agriculture and Resource Economics Society (AARES) 62nd Annual Conference that kicks off today. In the pre-conference workshops, there was discussion on globalization of wine markets and its […]
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The week before AARES
It is like the week before Christmas in the Centre for Global Food and Resources (GFAR) office. Imagine the week before Christmas for the family that is hosting all of the friends and relatives for Christmas lunch. We are excited but we are also very busy! Eight GFAR staff along with colleagues from the University […]
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GFAR researchers at the North-West Vietnam Research Symposium
The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) hosted the ‘North-West Vietnam Research Symposium’ in Hanoi last week. The symposium was attended by over 300 participants from Vietnamese and Australian institutions. The symposium was a showcase of ACIAR-funded research in north-west Vietnam. The north-west Vietnam region is mountainous, inhabited by communities of ethnic minorities, and […]
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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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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 […]
