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What food quality means for average consumers in Australia?
Associate Professor Wendy Umberger, Director of Global Food Studies, recently presented her work on consumer demand for quality at the 2015 ABARES Outlook Conference in Canberra between 3-4 March 2015. Prof Umberger pointed out that: consumer perceptions of quality are heteregenous. For some people food quality is more about safety; for others it will be […]
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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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Australia – Latin America Symposium – February 2015
Over the past decade Australia’s trade and investment relationship with Latin America has increased significantly, however, global challenges in the 21st century will redefine our engagement, and refocus greater effort on innovative solutions for the Food- Water-Energy Nexus through collaboration. Join the Latin American Diplomatic Corps, distinguished business leaders, and some of South Australia’s leading […]
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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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Feeding the 9 billion, well: An urgent need for post-2015 agenda and improved partnerships
The title is my conclusion from attending the 2014 Crawford Fund’s annual conference on food security, held between 26-28 August 2014 in Parliament House, Canberra. The conference was just excellent presenting prominent speakers who showed not only extensive knowledge about food security and its related challenges but also showed their care about this topic. It […]
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The 2014 Crawford Fund Parliamentary Conference: Pre-conference note on food security
I feel privileged to have the opportunity to attend the 2014 Annual Parliamentary Conference organised by the Crawford Fund. Looking at its impressive list of speakers, there is no doubt that the conference will address some of the key challenges that the global food production is facing. I also love Canberra and am always looking […]
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Real world internship on value chain improvement at Harvest Moon to prepare MGFAB students be career-ready
Our Master of Global Food and Agricultural Business Sovan Vith recently completed his internship at Harvest Moon. Sovan was supervised by Mr Simon Drum, Chief Operating Officer of Harvest Moon, Mrs Lisa Breaden, Quality Assurance Manager of Harvest Moon and Global Food Studies Deputy Director and researcher Mr Craig Johns. According the company’s website, Harvest […]
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Trade deal and comparative advantage in agriculture
Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe signed the Japan-Australia Economic Partnership Agreement (JAEPA) on 8 July 2014 in Canberra. According to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s official website: “More than 97 per cent of Australia’s exports to Japan will receive preferential access or enter duty-free when JAEPA is fully implemented. […]
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Is animal welfare considered in the Food Security concept?
By Risti Permani, Global Food Studies, University of Adelaide. On my recent flight from Adelaide to the Southeast Asian region, I found an interesting article “Finished with Fins at Starwood” published by travel3Sixty, AirAsia’s travel magazine. The article reported that the international hotel chain Starwood Hotels and Resorts announced a total ban on shark […]
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Sweet love: Partnership with SA premium chocolate brand to support Vanuatu farmers
South Australian premium chocolate manufacturer Haigh’s Chocolates and Global Food Studies researchers Professor Randy Stringer and Mr Craig Johns are working with Vanuatu farmers to improve the quality of their cocoa beans and increase their livelihoods. This program is part of Pacific Agribusiness Research for Development Initiative (PARDI), which is funded by the Australian Centre […]
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