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Global Agro-Food Value Chains: Participation, Determinants and Trade Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa

Dr. Jean Balié, leader of the Monitoring and Analysis Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) program in the Agricultural Development Economics (ESA) Division of FAO, was the latest prominent researcher to give a seminar at the Centre for Global Food and Resources, which was co-hosted with the AARES-SA branch. Dr. Balié’s seminar focused on his research […]

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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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Youth Perspectives’ on Regional Economic Cooperation: Cross Border Education, Social Media and Global Value Chains

Our Master of Global Food and Agricultural Business (MGFAB) Rohan Yargop recently attended the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council’s (PECC) 22nd General Meeting in Beijing, 10-11 September 2014. Professor Christopher Findlay, the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Professions also attended the meeting. According to the PECC’s website, “this year marks the 25th anniversary of APEC […]

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