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Focus farmer: Pak Yunus

Tilling the land and adding manure at Pak Yunus's forage block ready to plant odot and elephant grass.

Pak Yunus is a Focus Farmer (FF) in Cijeruk Bogor working with IndoDairy to achieve his business goals. See the latest update. 

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Highlights from the 2020 AARES conference

GFAR at 2020 AARES conference

Nikki Dumbrell shares highlights from the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Conference held in Perth last week.

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IndoDairy Newsletter #2

Photo of Pak Ujang

New stories from the Village Level Researchers (VLRs) and farmers in the IndoDairy Discussion Groups.

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IndoDairy goes down under

IndoDairy goes down under

The IndoDairy team travelled to Queensland, Australia to get a ‘Grass-to-Glass’ view of the dairy sector.

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PhD scholarship available

Murray River

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.

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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.

GFAR’s cocoa research project in Vanuatu celebrated a major achievement this week with products entering a new high-value market.

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Getting the #nextgen into international agricultural research for development

Nikki in Bac Ha Vietnam

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

‘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'! 

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Participation in the Second Authors Meeting of IPBES Values Assessment

Sacha in Vitoria-Gasteiz

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

University of New England's SMART farm

GFAR PhD candidate, Phassara Khamthara recounts her experience at the John Allwright Fellowship Executive Leadership Program workshop.

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