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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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Why is improving cold chains needed?

Public discussion on the importance of cold chain improvement has increased since the increasing importance of controlling infectious diseases through vaccination across the globe as well as increased demand for trade in perishable products such as dairy and seafood. Our Master of Global Food and Agricultural Business share their views about this issue. By Shaibu […]

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GFS Researcher in Focus – September 2015: Dr Risti Permani

Each month we will be asking one of our researchers to provide an insight into their research. This month Dr Risti Permani is our Researcher in Focus. What is the aim of your research? I am passionate about research than can assist policy makers produce welfare-enhancing programs and policy. There are various ways to improve […]

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Capacity building for research: Reviewing the role of extension programs to address challenges facing dairy value chains in Indonesia

Global Food Studies’ Associate Professor Wendy Umberger and Dr Risti Permani collaborating with Bogor Agricultural University under the leadership of Dr Arief Daryanto and Dr Sahara recently organised the final workshop “Capacity Building for Research: Promoting Inclusive Development of Agricultural Value Chains” on 17 February 2015. This event was funded by ACIAR through Project AGB/2014/033. […]

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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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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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2013 Food Security Regional Dialogue-Medan: Meeting Food Security Goals with Good Policy

The University of Adelaide economics and food policy experts continue to lead the development of effective policy and strategies for food security in the Asia-Pacific Region. The University hosted a meeting in Medan, Indonesia on 26-27 June with over 40 delegates from developing economy members of APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation), including experts in agricultural trade, […]

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