• All Projects [1]
• Current Projects [2]
• Concluded Projects [3]
• Relevant Publications [4]

Research Program Manager: Dr Simon Hearn
email: hearn@aciar.gov.au [5]

The Agricultural Development Policy program supports research on the enabling environment for a more productive and sustainable agriculture, and covers three broad strategies: agricultural trade policy, natural resource management economic policy and rural development policy.

Relevant Publications

CP14 [6] - ACIAR Corporate Plan 2008–2012

CP15 [7] - Country Profiles 2008-09

AR 2007-08 [8] - Annual Report 2007-08

AOP 2008-09 [9] - Annual Operational Plan 2008-09

TR69 [10] - Achieving food security in China: implications of World Trade Organization accession

AR 2006-07 [11] - Annual Report 2006-07

AOP 2007-08 [12] - Annual Operational Plan 2007-08

EXT04 [13] - Indonesian Strategic Plans 2005-2009: the Center for the Assessment and Development of Agricultural Technology

EXT02 [14] - The medium term development strategy 2005-2010 Papua New Guinea

MN126 [15] - Agricultural development and land policy in Vietnam: policy briefs [Bilingual version]

MN123a [Vietnamese] [16] - Agricultural development and land policy in Vietnam

CP09 [17] - Country Profiles 2006

MN123 [18] - Agricultural development and land policy in Vietnam

AR 2004-05 [19] - Annual Report 2004-05

IAS30 [20] - Eucalypt tree improvement in China

CP10 [21] - Country Profiles 2005

EXT03 [22] - Republic of South Africa Agricultural Research Council strategic plan 2005-2008

MN055 [23] - Food and other Crops in Fiji

WP47 [24] - Results of a Social and Economic Impact Assessment of Integrated Pest Management Strategies in Brassica Vegetable Crops in China

AR 2003-04 [25] - Annual Report 2003-04

WP56 [26] - Agricultural Research and Poverty Alleviation: Some International Perspectives

TR54 [27] - Contract farming in Indonesia: Smallholders and agribusiness working together

PR113 [28] - Agriculture: New directions for a new nation East Timor (Timor-Leste)

AR 2002-03 [29] - Annual Report 2002-03

TR52 [30] - Rice-shrimp farming in the Mekong Delta: biophysical and socioeconomic issues

MN097 [31] - Effects of Globalisation and Economic Development on the Asian Livestock Sector

IAP-WP46 [32] - Understanding the socioeconomic significance of livestock disease with particular reference to surra (trypanosomiasis) in selected Communities in eastern Indonesia

TR08 [33] - New Technologies for Rainfed Rice-based Farming Systems in the Philippines and Sri Lanka

TR17 [34] - Rice Production in Sri Lanka: a combined agronomic/economic study in the intermediate and dry zones

TR15 [35] - Marketing Perspectives on a Potential Pacific Spice Industry

IAP-WP06 [36] - Project development assessment: Pacific Island pearl oyster resources development (project 9131)

PR064 [37] - Integration of Ruminants into Plantation Systems in Southeast Asia

TR35 [38] - Biotechnology and Its Implications for ACIAR

MN075 [39] - Socio-Economic Evaluation of the Potential for Australian Tree Species in the Philippines

TR11 [40] - Economic Prospects for Vanilla in the South Pacific

MN022 [41] - Food Price Policy in Indonesia

PR024 [42] - Smallholder Agricultural Development in Tonga

MN081 [43] - Policy Options for the Tree Crop Industries in Papua New Guinea

MN019 [44] - Draught Animal Systems: an Indonesian Study

PR099 [45] - Food Security for Papua New Guinea

MN080 [46] - Setting Policy Priorities for the Development of Tree Crop Industries in Papua New Guinea

TR43 [47] - Grain Market Reform in China: Global Implications

PR026 [48] - Economics of Fishery Management in the Pacific Islands Region

IAP-WP11 [49] - Project development assessment: the application of plant tissue culture techniques to the propagation and breeding of tea in Indonesia

MN078 [50] - Soil Conservation Technologies for Smallholder Farming Systems in the Philippine Uplands

MN038 [51] - Protected area assessment in Vanuatu: a socieconomic approach

CP11 [52] - Adoption of ACIAR project outputs: studies of projects completed in 2002-2003