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Current Issues
2010
| 17th Mar |  | Fellowships foster new leaders and build connections
Nine up-and-coming leaders from agricultural organisations in the Asia-Pacific region met with Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance, Bob McMullan, on 16 March 2010.
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| 16th Mar |  | Seeds of Life on ABC TV
The progress being made in building food production and reducing hunger in East Timor through the ‘Seeds of Life’ program is the focus of a special feature on ABC TV’s Landline program. |
| 10th Mar |  | Website survey
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| 5th Mar |  | Improving women's business acumen in Papua New Guinea
International Women’s Day 2010 (8 March 2010) has the theme of equal rights, equal opportunities: progress for all. ACIAR works with women across the Asia-Pacific region, and an example of this is a project in Papua New Guinea helping to improve the business acumen of women involved in the horticultural industry. |
| 4th Mar |  | Outlook 2010: The Science of Food Security
At the 2010 ABARE Outlook conference in Canberra ACIAR CEO Dr Nick Austin outlined the need for a range of mini-revolutions in agricultural productivity to address global food security.
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| 4th Mar |  | Visit by Botswana delegation
ACIAR hosted the President of the Republic of Botswana, His Excellency Lieutenant General Seretse Khama Ian Khama on 2 March 2010. |
| 15th Feb |  | Helping Iraqi farmers adopt conservation farming
An Australian agricultural research project is helping Iraq to boost wheat production by adopting the conservation farming techniques widely adopted in Australia. |
| 10th Feb |  | $10 million to boost agribusiness in the Pacific
Australia will provide $10 million over four years to improve marketing opportunities and boost agribusiness in the Pacific through the Pacific Agribusiness Research for Development Initiative. |
| 21st Jan |  | ACIAR Research Seminar
Dr Colin Piggin will give an update on development of conservation cropping systems in the drylands of northern Iraq at ACIAR House on 29 January 2010. |
| 5th Jan |  | Breeding the chalk out of rice
Australian scientist Dr Melissa Fitzgerald is looking for ways to overcome the problem of chalky rice, which threatens the rice supply of 2.5 billion people. |
2009
| 22nd Dec |  | Growing more food beats hunger and boost incomes
On Australia’s doorstep, where millions of people face hunger on a daily basis, Australia is helping smallholder farmers to boost production and improve people’s prosperity. ACIAR’s CEO Dr Nick Austin explains Australia’s role in agricultural development and capacity building in the December 09 Issues magazine on global food security. |
| 15th Dec |  | Impact assessment workshop draws participants from 10 countries
A workshop on social science concepts and tools for technology evaluation and impact assessments held in the Philippines has contributed to creating an impact/evaluation culture in a wide range of agricultural research institutions. |
| 9th Dec |  | Joint project to boost canola production
The quality and yield of canola and other brassica species is set to improve in India, China and Australia, thanks to a three-way research project supported by ACIAR and Australia's Grains Research and Development Corporation.
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| 30th Nov |  | Delivering impacts for India’s dairy farmers
An ACIAR project on improving milk production in India, which included the adoption of a CSIRO-developed feed supplement, is estimated to have delivered benefits worth A$230 million. |
| 13th Nov |  | Country profiles available online
ACIAR's country profile series is now available online |
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