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GFAR Vietnam vegetables project in the news for International Women’s Day
Blog post by Nikki Dumbrell, Research Associate at GFAR In January 2018 Nikki Dumbrell, a Research Associate with The Centre for Global Food and Resources (GFAR) travelled to Lao Cai Province in Vietnam to evaluate and capture some of the impact of a GFAR-led research for development project. The project is funded by the Australian Centre for […]
GFAR researchers at the North-West Vietnam Research Symposium
The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) hosted the ‘North-West Vietnam Research Symposium’ in Hanoi last week. The symposium was attended by over 300 participants from Vietnamese and Australian institutions. The symposium was a showcase of ACIAR-funded research in north-west Vietnam. The north-west Vietnam region is mountainous, inhabited by communities of ethnic minorities, and […]
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The Indodairy Project – Team workshop and policy working group meeting
Improving milk supply, competitiveness and livelihoods in smallholder dairy chains in Indonesia Below, Rohan Yargop, provides an overview of the team workshop and policy working group meeting. The Indodairy project led by Prof Wendy Umberger, Executive Director, Centre for Global Food and Resources at the University of Adelaide, in collaboration with Indonesian partner institutions ICASEPS, ICARD and […]
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Stakeholder workshops: Improving food security in East and Southern Africa
Last month, Dr Alexandra Peralta from the Centre for Global Food and Resources, travelled to Uganda and Zambia where she helped to facilitate a series of multi-stakeholder workshops. These workshops are part of the activities under the ACIAR project, “Developing value chain innovation platforms to improve food security in East and Southern Africa – VIP4FS”. […]
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Celebrating the Role of Women in Agriculture
Last week the world celebrated International Women’s Day. We take this momentum to reflect on the significant role women play in agriculture not only as leading scientists in agriculture but also hard working inspiring female farmers across the globe running their family farms and contributing to improvement in their family’s and community’s welfare, children nutrition […]
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Beautiful pearls in the Pacific
Global Food Studies researchers Mr Theo Simos, Mr Craig Johns, Professor Randy Stringer and Professor Wendy Umberger played a key role in Pacific Agribusiness Research for Development Initiative (PARDI). The project was funded by The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). The ACIAR has been a long investor in the region and Global Food Studies […]
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Smallholders in a rapidly changing Asian region
Agrifood sector in Asia is changing. Consumer preferences are changing. Agrifood retail sector is changing. The question is how about smallholder producers? Are smallholder farmers changing? Can they change? Should they change? How to help them change? What, why and how do they change? What is the ‘suggested’ change? How can best assist smallholders? Our […]
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Indonesian Agriculture and Food Sectors: Beyond Rice
Those who live in Indonesia must realise there have been some changes in the way we purchase our food and the food that we consume. We have and see more of beef and dairy consumption. We see increased availability of and go more often to modern supermarkets. Yet, there has not been much written to […]
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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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Farmers’ preferences and technology adoption
Global Food Studies PhD scholar Suprehatin presented his paper at GFS Seminar Series on Wednesday 29th April 2015. His paper titled “The Effect of Indonesian Farmers’ Preferences for Crop Attributes in the Adoption of Horticulture crops: A Best-Worst Scaling Approach” is co-authored with GFS’ Associate Professor Wendy Umberger, Dr Dale Yi, Professor Randy Stringer and […]
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