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THE PARADOX OF IRRIGATION EFFICIENCY
According to a United Nations report, by 2025, 1.8 billion people will be living in countries or regions with absolute water scarcity, and two-thirds of the world’s population could be living under water stressed conditions. Crop irrigation accounts for 70% of the global water extractions. Irrigation efficiency measures are increasingly being promoted (and subsidised) throughout […]
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Mythical Nation Building: There’s 6 white elephants on the horizon
Blog post written by Dr. David Adamson After our recent political spill and fill, there is always a need to show that you are a positive change and you can do something. So combined with: oooh look its drought again; an on-going desire to put dams in to drought proof the country (because you know, its […]
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The Environment’s water is not Agriculture’s overdraft
Blog post prepared by Dr. David Adamson The Murray-Darling Basin Plan is based on the concept of ‘common property’ were a set of environmental rights are established and managed in the national good (economic, society & the environment). The environments rights were purchased from farmers either: directly via market mechanisms (i.e. buy-back where rights were […]
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Case for Transformational Change
GFAR researcher Prof. Mike Young is a Research Chair in Environmental and Water Policy at the University of Adelaide. As a result of an Australian Government endowment, each year Harvard University appoints one person to the Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair in Australian Studies at Harvard University . In recognition of his contribution to […]
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GFAR researchers explore opportunities in Portugal and Spain
GFAR researchers Dr. Adam Loch and Dr. David Adamson recently spent 10 days in Portugal and Spain. The trip leveraged an opportunity where they were invited as speakers at the ‘Managing Water Gaps: An Opportunity?’ an International Seminar held on the 17 April 2018 in Beja, Portugal. The focus of the workshop was on recent […]
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Prof Sarah Wheeler talks water on radio
Prof Sarah Wheeler, Associate Director of Research, Centre for Global Food and Resources at the University of Adelaide was interviewed by Amanda Vanstone on Radio National’s Counterpoint on 19 March 2018. “Fixing leaky pipes no way to save a river”. Economists are critical of the way federal government money has been spent on saving the […]
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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 […]
Sharing, Charging and Managing Water
Professor Mike Young, Centre for Global Food and Resources at the University of Adelaide was invited to speak on ‘experiences in sharing access to, charging for and managing water’ at the 2017 Lower Mekong Public Policy Initiative (LMPPI) Forum on Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources held in Da Nang, Vietnam. The LMPPI supports inter-disciplinary research, […]
GFAR Political Involvement and Advice
Members of our Centre often provide policy advice to politicians. The last couple of months has been busier than usual. Firstly, on 26th July Tony Burke (the shadow Federal Minister for the Arts, for Environment and Water, and for Citizenship and Multicultural Australia) requested to visit GFAR for a research briefing. Professor Wendy Umberger provided […]
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