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Highlights from the 2020 AARES conference
![GFAR at 2020 AARES conference](/global-food/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-02/GFAR%20at%20AARES2020.jpg?h=cb62a20a&itok=Jek_H4kh)
Nikki Dumbrell shares highlights from the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Conference held in Perth last week.
PhD scholarship available
![Murray River](/global-food/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-12/shutterstock_850371.jpg?h=354ceade&itok=JJqZ_ZhW)
Are you interested in looking at water issues in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia? We’re looking for a motivated student who wants to be part of an Australian Research Council Discovery Project starting in 2020 exploring the impacts of water recovery in the Murray-Darling Basin.
Cocoa cruising to success
![ACTIV President and chocolate-maker Sandrine Wallez (L) presents a package of Aelan products to Australia’s High Commissioner to Vanuatu, Ms Jenny Da Rin (R), at the launch of the new dessert on board P&O's Pacific Explorer (with GFAR’s Randy Stringer in the background). Photo: Lauren Drewery.](/global-food/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-12/Photo%201%20%282%29.jpg?h=52d3fcb6&itok=6kmNVtR3)
GFAR’s cocoa research project in Vanuatu celebrated a major achievement this week with products entering a new high-value market.
Getting the #nextgen into international agricultural research for development
![Nikki in Bac Ha Vietnam](/global-food/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-12/Nikki%20in%20Bac%20Ha%20Vietnam.jpg?h=33d27294&itok=XxvJnXSf)
Following a presentation to high school teachers about opportunities for the next generation to fight poverty and malnutrition around the globe, Nikki Dumbrell shares her key messages in this blog.
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Update on our agribusiness-flavoured MOOC
![Free online course: Understanding Agribusiness](/global-food/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-11/postcard_side1%5B2%5D.png?h=14a9df94&itok=9tzk5Ml2)
‘Understanding Agribusiness, Value Chains and Consumers in Global Food Systems’ is an free online course developed by staff at GFAR. This week, the course won Executive Dean Award for '21st Century Learning and Teaching'!
Participation in the Second Authors Meeting of IPBES Values Assessment
![Sacha in Vitoria-Gasteiz](/global-food/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-11/Photo%202%20%281%29%282%29.jpg?h=936200bd&itok=t3KN9Dkf)
In October, Sacha Amaruzaman, a PhD Candidate in the Centre for Global Food and Resources (GFAR) and Fellow in the IPBES Assessment on the Multiple Values of Nature, participated in the Second Authors Meeting of the assessment.
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Reflections from two weeks of training under the ACIAR John Allwright Fellowship Executive Leadership Program
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GFAR PhD candidate, Phassara Khamthara recounts her experience at the John Allwright Fellowship Executive Leadership Program workshop.
IndoDairy project researchers in Australia
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This week Indonesian researchers are joining the Northern Australia Dairy Innovation Days and touring the subtropical dairy industry.
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Fafa Yan is visiting GFAR
Introducing our new visiting PhD student, Fafa Yan.
Working on a new approach to sustainability in smallholder-dominated supply chains
![Project enumerator, Julius Njoke, with coffee farmer, Sam, in his garden while looking at shade trees spacing, ground cover and soil conservation measures.](/global-food/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-10/njoke%20and%20sam%20in%20his%20shady%20garden%2022.jpg?h=9cf54f3c&itok=cG96ZYw5)
Dr Daniel Gregg provides a project update from his fieldwork in Uganda.
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