News: Completed projects
Getting to the meat of the matter: social and economic issues in animal welfare in Australia’s livestock industries
This project aims to document understandings of animal welfare along the animal production value chain in Australia, determine how these perceptions influence both consumer and industry behaviours, and provide insight on how to foster better alignment between industry practices and consumer demands.
Developing smallholder inclusive food value chain models for local and global markets
The project studies the dairy, meat, fish and horticulture sectors and draw on the experience of farmers in six economies.
Asian Food in Transition: Priority Research for Food Security and Sustainable Futures in Australia, China and the Asia-Pacific Region
The Group Mission successfully identified a range of critical challenges and impacts facing China, and connected the need to understand and inform debate regarding how China's responses to these will affect Australia, the region (including developing countries) and global markets.
Pacific Agribusiness Research for Development Initiative (PARDI)
The PARDI research program sought to promote sustainable livelihood outcomes for South Pacific households. The project involved collaborative teams of researchers from NGOs, government agencies, universities and private enterprises.
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Infant Formula Use and Decision Making Study (InFormD): Infant formula purchase decisions
The findings from this study will help to inform Food Standards Australia New Zealand’s review of infant formula product regulations in the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code.
‘Growth through Innovation’ – South Australian Agrifood Industry
The goal of this project was to identify drivers and barriers of growth through innovation in the South Australian Agrifood sector.
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Impact assessment of cocoa interventions in Vanuatu
The objective of this SRA (Short Research Activity) is to evaluate the impact in adoption of ACIAR interventions in cocoa in Vanuatu.
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Infant Formula Use and Decision Making Study (InFormD): Infant formula preparation
The study aims to increase understanding of how Australian caregivers perceive, interpret and use the following mandatory and voluntary “on package” labelling information on infant formula products when preparing and storing infant formula: step-by-step preparation instructions, instruction to discard unfinished feeds, warning advice on powdered infant formula, storage instructions for the package of formula, use-by/best-before date.
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Assessing farmer responses to climate change: adjustment policy options
The aim of this work was to design policy to mitigate the cost of adjustment by farmers to climate change and thereby to improve their livelihood.
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Identification and assessment of value-added export market opportunities for non-GMO labelled food products from South Australia
This research aims to identify potential value added market opportunities for Non-GMO products in the American, Chinese, Japanese and British markets.
