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2012 Global Food Policy Report

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: International Food Policy Research Institute
  • Publisher: International Food Policy Research Institute
  • Published Location: Washington D.C.
  • ISBN: 978-0-89629-553-7

IFPRI's flagship report examines the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2012. By putting into perspective the year's food policy successes and disappointments, it suggests how to move forward those policies that improve the food situation for the poor. Report Locationhttp://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/gf ....

A Joint Australia–China Report on Strengthening Investment and Technological Cooperation in Agriculture to Enhance Food Security

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Australia-China Joint Working Group
  • Publisher: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
  • Country: Australia

Dr Emerson, Minister for Trade and Competitiveness and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on the Asian Century, launched Feeding the Future – A Joint Australia-China Report on Strengthening Investment and Technological Cooperation in Agriculture to Enhance Food Security on 20 December 2012. The report marks a new era in agricultural cooperat ....

Advancing North Queensland: Investing in the future of the north

  • Year: 2016
  • Publisher: Queensland Government
  • State/Region: North Queensland

Advancing North Queensland outlines the five priority areas that have been identified to accelerate the government's efforts to develop and diversify North Queensland's economy. These are road infrastructure, water security, research and innovation, tourism, trade and investment, and North Queensland stadium. Report LocationClick here to view ....

Australia’s role in the Asian Century: the food bowl of a growing region?

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: D Nguyen
  • Journal Name: Farm Policy Journal
  • Journal Number: Vol. 9 No. 4
  • Publisher: Australian Farm Institute
  • Published Location: Surry Hills
  • ISBN: 1449-8812
  • Country: Australia

This essay examines the potential of Australian agriculture to meet the growing food demand from Asia. In doing so, this paper analyses the drivers of demand from the Asian region, where opportunities are identified for specific agricultural industries. Australia’s current potential is examined, exploring innovation in agricultural productivity ....

Australian forest and wood products statistics: March and June quarters 2013

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: ABARES Forest Economics
  • Publisher: Department of Agriculture ABARES
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 978-1-74323-159-3
  • Country: Australia

This issue of the Australian Forest and Wood Products Statistics (AFWPS) includes updated Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) trade data for the March and June quarters of 2013, as well as 2012-13 data for housing and forestry employment. This release includes a summary of the recently released ABARES report titled Illegal logging regulation: t ....

Australian grains: outlook for 2013-2014 and industry productivity

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Beth Deards, David Mosby, Neil Thompson and Astrid Dahl
  • Publisher: Department of Agriculture ABARES
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 978-1-74323-157-9
  • Country: Australia

This report provides a summary of the September 2013 editions of the Australian Crop Report and the grains section of Agricultural commodities. The report also includes an update on the productivity of the Australian grains industry. Report Locationhttp://www.daff.gov.au/abares/publications_remote_content/recent-20?sq_content_src=%2BdXJsPWh0dHA ....

Crafting Regional Cultural Production: emergence, crisis and consolidation in the Gold Coast surfboard industry

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Warren, Andrew; Gibson, Chris
  • Journal Name: Australian Geographer
  • Journal Number: 44.4
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Published Location: United Kingdom
  • ISBN: 00049182
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland

Surfboard-making is concentrated in regions with vibrant surfing subcultures, suitable waves and sufficient expertise in crafting boards, by hand, to suit prevailing coastal conditions. This article charts the rise of the Gold Coast as Australia's most concentrated cluster of surfboard-making, from its origins as do-it-yourself craft in backyards ....

Design and Implementation of Food-Import Related Regulations: Experiences from Some Regional Trade Agreements

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Martin von Lampe, Hyunchul Jeong
  • Journal Name: OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers
  • Journal Number: 62
  • Publisher: OECD

This report looks at procedures and processes related to non-tariff measures in agricultural trade. Based on the prior that countries are likely to make efforts to reduce the trade hindering effects of domestic food regulation within regional trade agreements, we focus on three different RTAs, including the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement, th ....

Economic and Environmental Indicators for South Australia and its Regions, 2006/07

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Matthew Ferris, Lisa Rippin and Julian Morison, econsearch
  • Publisher: Department of Trade and Economic Development
  • Published Location: Marryatville SA
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: South Australia

This report is one of a series of reports prepared by EconSearch for the Department of Trade and Economic Development to detail the method, data sources and results from construction of input-output (I-O) models for South Australia (SA) and its component Government and Regional Development Board (RDB) regions for 2006/07. The purpose of this repo ....

Employment and population growth in rural and remote Australia

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Fisher, B
  • Journal Name: Good Health - good country: from conception to completion: proceedings of the 6th National Rural Health Conference, Canberra
  • Country: Australia

This paper briefly outlines demographic trends in Australia, addressing issues of: rural employment; changes in agriculture; economic reform and access to global markets; the cost of sustainable economic growth; restrictions on trade; and the challenge for rural health services. Report Locationhttp://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/10767/20020 ....

Farmer’s markets: the fresh new link in the food chain

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: J Adams
  • Journal Name: Farm Policy Journal
  • Journal Number: Vol. 10 No. 1
  • Publisher: Australian Farm Institute
  • Published Location: Surry Hills
  • ISBN: 1449-8812
  • Country: Australia

Jane Adams is the principal of Jane Adams Communications a Sydney-based marketing consultancy specialising in food, wine, and regional and urban community development projects. Since 1998 Jane has pursued a vital personal interest in farmers’ markets, a significant driver of economic development and food marketing in regional Australia. She is ....

Food and Fibre Export Performance Report

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Ridley, L.
  • Editors: Purcell, C.
  • Publisher: Victorian Government, Department of Environment and Primary Industries
  • Published Location: Melbourne, Vic
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Victoria

This report provides information on the value of Victorian and Australian food and fibre exports. The report is prepared by the Trade and Investment Branch and is focused on export performance by industry and key export markets for the 2008-09 to 2012-13 financial years. Victorian food and fibre exports were valued at $9.4 billion ....

Food value chain analysis

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Haq, Zahoor ul
  • Publisher: International Food Policy Research Institute

The study of value chains comprises of two key concepts: value and chain. The term value is synonym to “value added” in the Value Chain Analysis (VCA) as it characterizes the incremental value of a resultant product produced from processing of a product. For agricultural products, value addition can also take place through differentiation of ....

Global agricultural price supports: The political and economic forces that drive unsustainable agricultural protectionism policy

  • Year: 2010
  • Author: Hays, John Francis
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: The University of Southern Mississippi
  • Published Location: United States -- Mississippi
  • ISBN: 9781124110998
  • Country: United States, Europe

Agricultural tariffs and price supports are the last bastion of US and European protectionism. While all other areas of commerce have embraced change and welcomed open-market international commerce, agriculture has remained the lone holdout. The small farmers for whom these support programs were designed no longer exist. Yet governments app ....

Highlights of IFPRI’s recent food policy research for the government of Australia

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: International Food Policy Research Institute
  • Publisher: International Food Policy Research Institute

In the wake of the food crises of the early 1970s and the resulting World Food Conference of 1974, a group of innovators realized that food security depends not only on crop production, but also on the policies that affect food systems, from farm to table. In 1975, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) was founded. IFPRI was fo ....

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