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Counting the costs (and benefits) of pollination: Planting native vegetation for productive crops
GFAR’s Associate Professor Patrick O’Connor is set to undertake economic research as part of a new project aiming to help farmers and growers design and implement native plantings to support bee and other insect populations needed to pollinate their crops and orchards. “ We want to understand the price farmers are prepared to pay for […]
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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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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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Capacity building for research: Promoting inclusive development of agricultural value chains
The Indonesian dairy industry is growing. Yet, challenges remain. Currently, Indonesia is only able to meet 30% of its domestic demand for dairy products which indicates an opportunity for the dairy industry to increase its production. Pre-farm growth-limiting constraints are evident. Issues with forage availability and quality, low animal reproductive performance, poor mastitis management and […]
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Strengthening networks to conduct horticulture trade research in China
The Global Food Studies (GFS) research team, Associate Prof. Wendy Umberger, Dr Suzie Newman and Dr Xiaobo He and Dr Rodd Dyer Agribusiness Research Program Manager of the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) recently returned from Beijing. The trip between 19 and 22 May 2014 aimed at identifying potential research partners for a […]
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