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Our New Centre for Global Food and Resources is officially launched today
Launching tonight in Adelaide, is The University of Adelaide’s new Centre for Global Food and Resources. The Centre brings together all aspects of food production, food consumption and natural resources, spanning the economic and environmental health of food and water as well as its social impact. “Our new Centre builds on the University’s reputation as […]
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Centre for Global Food & Resources Launch Invitation
Professor Christopher Findlay AM and Professor Wendy Umberger invite you to the launch of the University of Adelaide’s new Research Centre: The Centre for Global Food and Resources (GFAR) The Centre will enhance and strengthen the University’s global reputation for high quality, high impact research in the food and resources space. It will focus on […]
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A graduate’s story: From internship to career prospects in agribusiness
Graduating with the Master of Global Food and Agricultural Business (MGFAB) in 2014, Yumeng Chen, tells us of her experiences and provides advice to other future and current students. Yumeng on Global Food Studies (GFS) Our lecturers and tutors either currently work or have worked for world famous international organisations and have dozens of years […]
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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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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 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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Smallholder-inclusive business models in agriculture: What are they and their succces factors?
People seldom associate the term ‘business models’ with ‘smallholders’. However, ’smallholder-inclusive business models’ are in demand. With majority of agriculture sectors in developing countries are run by smallholders, a variety of strategies to better link them to markets could mean two big things: agricultural development and poverty reduction. Both would positively impact on food security. […]
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Mapping sweet potato supply chains in PNG
Global Food Studies researcher Dr Suzie Newman presented her work at GFS seminar series on “Mapping sweet potato supply chains in Papua New Guinea”. The work was co-authored with Isidora Ramita, John Spriggs, Kylie Crampton, Guinevere Ortiz, Ronald Pam and Conrad Anton and was part of an ACIAR-funded project run between 2008 and 2011. The […]
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