News: Active projects
GFAR mobile experimental laboratory
A major focus for this mobile lab is on decision-making in local contexts.
Agricultural Policy Research to Support Natural Resource Management in Indonesia’s Upland Landscapes
This project’s research activities provide an understanding of how existing national and local policies (e.g., public investments, property rights, extension, fertiliser and water subsidies, trade policies, and taxes) influence farm household decisions that result in these environmental externalities.
Building water governance capacity in the EU
he purpose of this project is to fortify a continuing dialogue around water issues between the EU and Australia.
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Improving groundwater allocation and use in the western USA
Key insights include the importance of attending to the development of institutional arrangements that enable individual users to trade water.
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Climate sharing and energy security
This project is searching for ways to bring investment confidence back to the electricity sector.
Minimising transaction costs in Murray–Darling Basin water reform
The objective is to identify the magnitude of costs associated with different categories, and their direction over time, such that insights for other jurisdictions and external parties may be formed.
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Enhancing livelihoods from improved forest management in Nepal
This project builds on the success and lessons of the 5-y project FST/2011/076, Enhancing livelihoods and food security from agroforestry and community forestry in Nepal, also known as the EnLiFT project.
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Increasing irrigation water productivity in Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe through on-farm monitoring, adaptive management and Agricultural Innovation Platforms
This project is about increasing irrigation water productivity and changing farmer behaviour in three south-eastern African countries.
Food Insights Questionnaire (FoodIQ) is a twice-yearly online survey of Australian food shoppers.
The flexible survey instrument is designed to be responsive to current food issues and trends.
Aligning genetic resources, production and postharvest systems to market opportunities for Pacific island and Australian cocoa
This project will build on past work by adopting a “whole of chain” approach, focused on specific market needs and opportunities: evaluating and disseminating appropriate genetic resources, raising agronomic productivity, and developing and encouraging the uptake of best practice in fermentation and drying to optimise cocoa quality.
