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Papua New Guinea - Country Office

  1. Overview
  2. Country Strategy
  3. Priorities
  4. Key Program Managers
  5. Current Projects
  6. Concluded Projects
  7. Achievements
  8. Relevant Publications
  9. Country News and Stories
  10. Project Locations
  11. Country Office
  12. Country Portfolio
  13. AusAid and Other Briefs
  14. Fellowship Statistics

Country Office

ACIAR has a formal program of consultations with PNG to establish priorities in research collaboration, as well as annual smaller consultations and industry workshops to finetune these priorities. A record of the most recent set of formal consultations, held in May 2008, is available at http://www.aciar.gov.au/node/8982. The ACIAR PNG portfolio emphasises the disciplines of agricultural systems (including postharvest activities), production and protection of root, horticultural and tree crops, fisheries and forestry. Training priorities are mainly addressed through targeted activities within projects, although support for postgraduate degrees in Australia and an in-country scholarship scheme at the University of Technology, Lae, are the main contributors to capacity development. The priorities are grouped under the following thematic programs.

Subprogram 1: Addressing social, cultural and policy constraints to the adoption of agricultural technologies

Subprogram 2: Enhancement of smallholder incomes from horticulture and root crops

Subprogram 3: Improving smallholder returns from export tree crop production and marketing

Subprogram 4: New livelihoods from smallholder fisheries, aquaculture and forestry

Subprogram 5: Agricultural biosecurity and sustainable management of forestry and fisheries resources