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Australia’s Agriculture Future: Trade, ‘Brand Australia’ and optimism
Global Food Studies partners Professor Kym Anderson AC and Professor Rachel Ankeny contributed to the recently-launched report from the Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA) on Australia’s Agriculture Future. According to Australia’s Chief Scientist Professor Ian Chubb AC, the report “helps point the way to maintaining and enhancing our outstanding global reputation in agriculture, while […]
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News from this week: Graduation, workshop participation, guest lecture
It has been a busy week for our team! In addition to successfully organising Prof Mike Young’s Harvard Lecture, we also have good news from our staff and students. We congratulate Dr Wahida for her PhD completion. Dr Wahida attended the graduation ceremony on 15th September 2015 accompanied by her beautiful family. Her PhD project […]
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Talk Global Food: Program, Electives, Research on 20 August 2015
The Global Food Studies team will be at the Waite hub between 11:45am and 2:00pm on Thursday, 20 August 2015 to talk about how food will become the important issue for the global economy over the next decade. Visit us to hear about our programs and how you may be able to fit a Global […]
GFS students visited 15 leading SA agribusiness companies as part of a new intensive course
Between 13th and 17th July 2015, Global Foods Studies introduced a new week long intensive course designed to expose 20 of our students to a variety of local leading agribusiness companies. The course titled “Topics in Agricultural Business B” was coordinated by two GFS staff members, Mr Craig Johns and Mr Theo Simos. The tour […]
Six MGFAB students presented their research projects
Six Master of Global Food and Agricultural Business students, Mr Seth Offei, Ms Jieya Liu, Ms Tomoe Takahashi, Ms Yustina Wambrau, Ms Nan Chen and Mr Yukung Ding, presented their research projects on Monday 1 June 2015. Global Food Studies academic staff Mr Craig Johns, who is the course coordinator of the research project, […]
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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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MGFAB student internship at WTO: Seeking for a just global food trade system
Our Master of Global Food and Agricultural Business (MGFAB) student Marcel Moreira Pinto is doing an internship at the World Trade Organization (WTO). He kindly shares his view of challenges facing global trade talk and highlights some issues that we should all consider. By: Marcel Moreira Pinto These two years of the Master of […]
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MGFAB Final Presentations: Challenges and opportunities facing global food and agricultural markets
On Monday 3 November 2014, we had a successful full-day final presentation workshop presenting 20 final semester students! The final presentation was part of our 12 unit compulsory research project . The range of topics that our students presented from land grab in Africa, beef and lamb value chains in Southeast Asia, adoption of technology […]
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Is business failure a sign of market failure?
By: Jeremy Lomman I recently joined the Global Food Studies program at the University of Adelaide. We have only scratched the surface on the mountain of economic data and reports to be analysed about the global agribusiness and food industry. One thing that is already glaringly obvious is the increasing challenge of managing the […]
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Winter School Course on Agriculture and Food in International Trade
Global Food Studies’ academic staff including Associate Professor Wendy Umberger, Mr Craig Johns, and Mr Theo Simos recently completed teaching a five-day intensive winter school course organised by the Institute of International Trade, “Agriculture and Food in International Trade” between 7 and 11 July 2014. Staff from the IIT including Mr David Morfesi, Mr Graeme Thomson […]
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