Working Papers

Proceedings of the second workshop 14-16 March 2006, Penang, Malaysia.

Rhizobium science and inoculation as a means of facilitating nodulation and nitrogen-fixation of legumes.

Pacific island governments and communities are constantly seeking to tap new and established international markets for their farm produce.

The consumption of live reef fish is an important component of overall fish consumption in a number of Asian countries.

The Mandarin translation of Working Paper 59.

This report is the outcome of a cooperative program involving scientists from the Tibet Academy of Agricultural and Animal Sciences, the Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Australia.

Results of a study to research the effectiveness of three participatory extension methods for scaling out forage and livestock technologies to new villages

Aquaculture is an important industry in Vietnam but one of the main constraints on increasing production is the lack of cost-effective feeds and feeding strategies

Poverty alleviation has become a primary goal of overseas development assistance for most donor countries and international financial institutions

This working paper covers the proceedings of an international workshop held in Jianyang, Fujian Province, Peoples Republic of China on the 6-9 October 1997

Mud crab aquaculture has been practised for many years in Southeast Asia, based primarily on capture and fattening of juvenile crabs from the wild

The majority of pig producers are smallholders, most of whom are located in rural areas

Land and water management is increasingly being based on watersheds

The purpose of this assessment was to extend an earlier analysis by investigating the longer-term impacts of two ACIAR-funded projects

This project was designed to provide preliminary information about the cultural, social, political and economic context of livestock disease in Indonesia, and to determine the likely effect on the transfer to Indonesian institutions

Informal discussions among SPC staff, many of whom have considerable experience of working in the Pacific Islands, suggested that there were problems with accessing and using agricultural statistical information in the region

Upon developing a new agricultural technology, national agricultural research services (NARS) and international agricultural research centres (IARCs) need to determine whether the innovation will provide long-term, sustainable benefits to their targeted stakeholders, usually smallholder farmers in developing countries

This paper discusses project evaluation of twenty-one ACIAR-supported projects based at the University of the Philippines at Los Banos (UPLB) funded between 1983-1995

While ACIAR has invested heavily in scientific biological research in agriculture, interest has evolved in other areas of disipline such as in agricultural policy

Electronic Version onlyThe Forages for Smallholder Project (FSP) is a participatory research program in Southeast Asia that commenced in 1995

China is both a big vegetable consumer and a big vegetable producer in the world

In this paper, the dual approach to ex ante research evaluation in a multiple-input, multiplt-output industry is explained and demonstrated

There is strong evidence that agricultural research is an important source of growth in agriculture, resulting in economic and environmental benefits

ACIAR was established in 1982 as a statutory authority within the Commonwealth Government's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

This report is the third resulting from a program of assessments being undertaken of impacts of ACIAR projects that were completed some five years previously

A recent external review of ACIAR (Nairn et al 1998) recommended (p 42) that ACIAR should more effectively communicate the way in which the benefits flow from ACIAR projects to ultimately achieve poverty alleviation

This small study is a second stage of a program of assessments being undertaken of the research capacity and community impact of bilateral projects sponsored by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) that were completed some five years previously

This small study follows from an earlier study (Mauldon 1998) that examined the external reviews of 111 ACIAR-sponsored large bilateral projects completed between 1990 and 1997

This paper discusses the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) Economic Impact Model which can be used in ex-ante and ex-post evaluations of projects

This report was commissioned as part of ACIAR's response to an audit review of its Multi-lateral Sub-program which recommended that it implement evaluations of completed Special Purpose and Restricted Grant projects funded by the International Agricultural Research Centre (IARC) program