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Is the Basin Plan Over?
Blog post by Dr David Adamson, DECRA Fellow, Centre for Global Food and Resources Australia in many ways has an enviable position in regard to water reform. Australia has embraced reform and highlighted what can be done and what needs to be done. The Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) has been essentially a natural experiment in water […]
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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 […]
A Second Warning to Humanity from The World’s Scientists
It is twenty-five years since the Union of Concerned Scientists and more than 1700 independent scientists issued the 1992 “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity”. The warning brought together evidence of human impact on the natural world and cautioned that fundamental changes were needed to prevent catastrophic consequences from the depletion and despoiling of the Earth’s […]
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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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Insights into the South Australian Agrifood Industry and Food Standards
Read on for an update on the proceedings from Day 2 of the short course on Food Standards and Regulations Familiarisation, led by The Centre for Global Food and Resources. The second day for the IA-CEPA delegates at the University of Adelaide began with Elizabeth Gunner from Richard Gunner’s Fine Meats talking about her experience […]
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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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Attend the Goyder Institute’s Water Forum to hear about the latest research from The Centre for Global Food and Resources
On Tuesday the 4th of July, A/Prof Sarah Wheeler will present some of GFAR’s latest research on farm exit intentions in the Murray-Darling Basin, at the Goyder Institute’s Water Forum. This research is from her ARC Future Fellowship, and has just been published in AJARE with Dr Alec Zuo. See the full program for the […]
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Economic Instruments and Water Reform: Conference and Paper
At the recent XVI World Water Congress in Cancun, Mexico The Centre for Global Food and Resources (GFAR) organised a special session titled: Charges vs. buyback: who pays for water ecosystems restoration? The objective of this session was to examine the role that economic instruments (e.g. water pricing and charges, ecosystem services payments, voluntary […]
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Budget 2017: The potential re-nationalisation of Snowy Hydro and Version 2.0
Dr. David Adamson and Dr. Adam Loch, ARC DECRA Fellows at The Centre for Global Food and Resources, share their thoughts on the Federal Budget 2017 and what it means for the Snowy Hydro Scheme. Well, Tuesday night’s Federal Budget (here) raised the possibility that the Federal Government would buy out NSW and VIC share […]
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