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Student experiences beyond the classroom: MGFAB students visit the Intercontinental Hotel
Earlier this month, Masters of Global Food and Agricultural Business students swapped the classroom for the Intercontinental Hotel. Read below as student, Melissa Verdino, reflects on the experience and key learning points. “Our Agricultural Markets class had the opportunity to visit the Intercontinental Hotel Adelaide last Friday (May 6th) and embark on an insightful tour […]
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Here is a million dollar question: How to solve issues in agrifood markets and achieve food security?
After 15 hours of flights from Adelaide, I arrived at 6 o’clock in the morning at the Los Angeles International Airport. The immigration queuing line was surprisingly quite short. “Next!” said the immigration officer, firmly but nicely. She asked me politely ‘”What is the purpose of your trip?”. I said “I am going to attend […]
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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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GFS Researchers attended ICAE2015 in Milan: Agriculture in an interconnected world
GFS researchers Associate Professor Wendy Umberger, Professor Randy Stringer, Mr Suprehatin, Dr Dale Yi, Dr Alexandra Peralta, and Dr Risti Permani attended the 29th International Conference of Agricultural Economists in Milan, Italy between 8 and 14 August 2015. The conference brought leading agricultural economists stimulating various issues related to the widespread adoption of new communication […]
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MGFAB student selected as a delegate at SAMUDRA program to study Australian marine sector
Our Master of Global Food and Agricultural Students actively seek opportunities to further develop their professional network and research capacity. One of our students Mr Ade Wiguna Nur Yasin was selected to be a delegate at the ‘SAMUDRA program’ funded by Australia Awards to learn more about Australian marine sector. Here more about his story […]
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 […]
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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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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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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Capacity building for research: Understanding dairy value chains in West Java
Global Food Studies (Associate Professor Wendy Umberger, Dr Risti Permani and PhD student Camilo Esparza Garcia) collaborating with Bogor Agricultural University under the leadership of Dr Arief Daryanto and Dr Sahara recently organised the second workshop “Capacity Building for Research: Promoting Inclusive Development of Agricultural Value Chains” between 27 and 30 October 2014. This event […]
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