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

Research Program Manager: Dr Caroline Lemerle
email: lemerle@aciar.gov.au [5]

The Agricultural Systems Management program emphasises integrated applied economic and biophysical research with a systems orientation. The program recognises the need for researchers drawn from both the social and biophysical sciences to work with each other, and with research users, to develop effective agricultural production and marketing practices and resource management strategies. This is achieved through: applying farming systems research principles which recognise the central role of the farmer; making extension systems more effective, and marketing systems research within a whole-of-chain framework.

Concluded Projects

ANRE1/1989/003 [6] - Economic policies for the Philippine sugar industry

ANRE1/1989/023 [7] - Impacts of protection policies on the agricultural sector of Thailand

ANRE1/1990/020 [8] - The socio-economic assessment of native forest preservation proposals in Vanuatu: Implications for forest management

ANRE1/1990/022 [9] - Economic policy choices for rural development in Papua New Guinea

ANRE1/1990/038 [10] - Analysis of policies affecting the Indonesian agricultural sector : A multiple modelling approach and application to fertiliser policies

ANRE1/1990/039 [11] - Government policies in the Philippines beef industry

ANRE1/1991/009 [12] - The world market for coconut production: An economic analysis from the perspective of the Philippines

ANRE1/1992/028 [13] - Emergence and integration of regional grain markets in China

ANRE1/1993/023 [14] - Dairy policy in Indonesia

ANRE1/1993/705 [15] - Analysis of growth and stabilisation policies in Indonesia - a linked modelling approach

ANRE1/1996/043 [16] - Participatory land use planning for forest and agricultural resources in Papua New Guinea

ANRE1/1996/186 [17] - The emergence of farmers' organisations in rural Vietnam: Relevance to rural development and rural development policy

ANRE1/1996/224 [18] - Participatory planning and management of resource development in Vanuatu

ASEM/1995/002 [19] - Analysis of socio-economic and agribusiness developments in the Chinese beef and cattle industry

ASEM/1995/039 [20] - Economic, social and environmental implications of rice-shrimp interface in Bangladesh: A feasibility study

ASEM/1995/118 [21] - Integrated water resources assessment and management framework: a case study of the Upper Chao Phraya headwaters, Northern Thailand

ASEM/1995/119 [22] - An evaluation of the sustainability of farming systems in the brackish water region of the Mekong Delta

ASEM/1996/044 [23] - Planning for agricultural development and sustainable land management in Papua New Guinea

ASEM/1997/041 [24] - Enhancing the contribution of livestock within smallholder mixed farming systems in the Philippines

ASEM/1997/118 [25] - Socio economic monitoring and evaluation of research and development of the PNG cocoa and coconut smallholder sector

ASEM/1998/052 [26] - Enhancing farmer adoption of simple conservation practices: landcare in the Philippines and Australia

ASEM/1998/060 [27] - Chinese wool textile mills: economic analysis of fibre-input/textile-product selection and new processing technologies

ASEM/1998/068 [28] - Socio-economic evaluation of supervised cattle distribution under coconuts in the Philippines

ASEM/1998/081 [29] - Global Mountain Program on: Investigating issues and options for managing sustainable livelihoods on marginal mountain farms

ASEM/1999/013 [30] - Improved marketing of mandarins in East Nusa Tenggara in Indonesia and northern Queensland

ASEM/1999/069 [31] - An analytic framework to facilitate development of Indonesia's beef industry

ASEM/1999/078 [32] - Decentralisation of policy making and management affecting the forests of Indonesia

ASEM/1999/084 [33] - Improving productivity of the smallholder oil palm sector in Papua New Guinea: a study of biophysical and socioeconomic interactions

ASEM/1999/093 [34] - The role of carbon sequestration credits in influencing the economic performance of farm forestry systems

ASEM/2000/088 [35] - Redevelopment of a timber industry following extensive land clearing

ASEM/2000/101 [36] - Improving the efficiency of the agribusiness supply chain and quality management for small agricultural producers in Mindanao

ASEM/2000/107 [37] - Future prospects for smallholder poultry producers in the Philippines: ducks and native chickens

ASEM/2000/109 [38] - Farming systems research for crop diversification in Cambodia and Australia

ASEM/2000/162 [39] - Scientific communication in Papua New Guinea

ASEM/2001/016 [40] - Microbial contaminants associated with sago processing and storage in Papua New Guinea

ASEM/2001/037 [41] - Improving the marketing system for fresh produce of the highlands of PNG

ASEM/2001/055 [42] - Improving yield and economic viability of peanut production in Papua New Guinea and Australia using integrated management and modelling approaches

ASEM/2001/095 [43] - Institutional strengthening for integrated water resource management in Thailand

ASEM/2001/107 [44] - Accelerating the impacts of participatory research and extension on shifting cultivation farming systems in Laos

ASEM/2001/108 [45] - Improving delivery of extension services in the Philippines

ASEM/2002/014 [46] - Improving productivity and the participation of youth and women in the Papua New Guinea cocoa, coconut and oil palm industries

ASEM/2002/022 [47] - CGIAR Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators Initiative (ASTI)

ASEM/2002/050 [48] - Economic performance and management of the Gulf of Papua prawn fishery

ASEM/2003/012 [49] - Improving the marketing system for maize and soybeans in Cambodia

ASEM/2005/017 [50] - Information, knowlege, and training gaps in the postharvest sector of the Philippines grain industry

ASEM/2005/058 [51] - CATP Better practice workshop series

ASEM/2005/062 [52] - Linking smallholder vegetable producers in the Philippines to urban markets - a scoping study

ASEM/2005/126 [53] - Sweet potato workshop in PNG

ASEM/2006/068 [54] - Analytical equipment in support of the ACIAR/Unitech Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme

EFS/1982/005 [55] - Constraints on development of smallholder farming systems in the south Pacific

EFS/1983/044 [56] - Feasibility study of bulk handling of paddy and rice in Malaysia

EFS/1983/062 [57] - Economic evaluation of policies for rice self-sufficiency in Indonesia

EFS/1983/069 [58] - Use of simulation modelling to define environmental constraints to increased productivity and rice based cropping systems in Sri-Lanka and the Philippines

EFS/1983/083 [59] - Papua New Guinea export tree crops study

EFS/1984/035 [60] - Papua New Guinea commodity price stabilisation study

EFS/1985/022 [61] - Cash cropping in Papua New Guinea

EFS/1985/041 [62] - Soil erosion control: Leyte

EFS/1986/007 [63] - ACIAR agricultural research priority assessment : Co-Ordination

EFS/1986/024 [64] - Research priorities for Philippine agriculture

EFS/1986/025 [65] - Research priorities for agriculture in Thailand

EFS/1986/027 [66] - Agricultural research priorities : Papua New Guinea

EFS/1987/034 [67] - Smallholder agriculture in Papua New Guinea

EFS/1988/022 [68] - Rural income and employment in Indonesia

EFS/1988/023 [69] - Economics of giant clam (Tridacnid) mariculture

EFS/1988/038 [70] - Technical change in agricultural income distribution and economic policy in the Philippines

EFS/1989/028 [71] - Economics of the tuna fisheries industry in Papua New Guinea