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Watch now: Harvard Chair Lecture
Professor Mike Young’s Harvard Chair Lecture on “Managing Transformational Change – What would a South Australian Carbon Trading System look like?” was presented at the University of Adelaide on the 10th of September 2015. Click here to watch the recording. Mike Young spent the 2013/14 academic year in the Australian Studies Chair at Harvard University. […]
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Invitation: Harvard Chair Lecture
Managing Transformational Change – What would a South Australian Carbon Trading System look like? Presented by Professor Mike Young Mike Young spent the 2013/14 academic year in the Australian Studies Chair at Harvard University. While at Harvard, he began work on a book on the design and implementation of transformational environmental policy reforms. He also […]
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The 2015 Crawford Fund Conference highlighted the importance of public and private partnerships
Our GFS researcher Dr Wahida recently attended the 2015 Crawford Fund’s Annual Parliamentary Conference held between 10 and 12 August 2015. Here is her insights into this exciting and highly anticipated event. The 2015 Crawford Fund’s Annual Parliamentary Conference focused on the importance of collaboration and partnership between the public and private sectors to achieve […]
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Workshop on Climate Adaptation in China
GFS researcher Dr Jayanthi Thennakoon and the Executive Dean of the Faculty of the Professions Professor Christopher Findlay visited China last March. They attended a workshop between 14 and 19 March 2015 in Guangzhou, China, which was part of the ACIAR-funded Assessing Farmer Responses to Climate Change – Adjustment Policy Options project (ADP/2011/039), led by […]
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GFS PhD scholar shared her research experience with Foreign Minister and Ambassadors
On 20 March 2015, Global Food Studies PhD scholar Wahida made a presentation about her research experience to Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop. Minister Bishop hosted around 80 of the ‘most senior Canberra-based foreign diplomatic corps’ in a three-day visit to South Australia. The aim of the trip was to provide an insight into opportunities […]
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Meeting partners and measuring diet quality in Vietnam
Our PhD student Christian Genova recently visited Vietnam as part of his PhD project on smallholder vegetable farming in north-western Vietnam. We’re delighted to share his story. (Warning: a great quote at the end of the story especially for research students and researchers who work on a collaborative project 🙂 Thank you Christian for […]
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Concerns over Vanuatu’s agricultural and food sectors post Cyclone Pam
The ABC Rural recently reported that Cyclone Pam has damaged Vanuatu’s agricultural sectors. Global Food Studies has been heavily involved with ACIAR-funded project work in Vanuatu, particularly in the cocoa, canarium and tamarind industries. On behalf of the Global Food Studies team, Deputy Director Mr Craig Johns stated that: “Our first concern has been with […]
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Capacity building for research: Reviewing the role of extension programs to address challenges facing dairy value chains in Indonesia
Global Food Studies’ Associate Professor Wendy Umberger and Dr Risti Permani collaborating with Bogor Agricultural University under the leadership of Dr Arief Daryanto and Dr Sahara recently organised the final workshop “Capacity Building for Research: Promoting Inclusive Development of Agricultural Value Chains” on 17 February 2015. This event was funded by ACIAR through Project AGB/2014/033. […]
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GFS students’ visit to Brendan Smart Farm: Insights into a South Australian modern family farm
Six Master of Global Food and Agricultural Business (MGFAB) visited Brendon Smart’s farm properties on 12th February 2015. Brendon is a ‘multi-enterprise’ farmer from Keith, in South Australia’s upper South East and about 225 kilometres from Adelaide. The Smart Group runs several thousand livestock among extensive cereal cropping and irrigation operations. The farm visit was […]
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Vanuatu cocoa growers tasting the fruit of their hard work
Talking about making a life impact, we are proud of the success of the ACIAR-funded PARDI cocoa project that is led by our researcher Professor Randy Stringer. The Australian covered a story about this on 23 November 2014 “Vanuatu cocoa growers target the fine chocolate market“. What the project has done is highly innovative. The […]
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