• 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.

Relevant Publications

AR 2007-08 [6] - Annual Report 2007-08

MN134 [7] - Growing peanuts in Papua New Guinea: a best management practice manual

CP16 [8] - Adoption of ACIAR project outputs: studies of projects completed in 2003-2004

TR69 [9] - Achieving food security in China: implications of World Trade Organization accession

PMg Mar-Jun 08 [10] - Partners Magazine March - June 2008

FR2007-16 [11] - Improving the marketing system for fresh produce of the highlands of PNG

MN128 [12] - Quality management of fresh produce from the highlands of Papua New Guinea

AR 2006-07 [13] - Annual Report 2006-07

EXT05 [14] - National Agriculture Development Plan 2007-2016

AOP 2007-08 [15] - Annual Operational Plan 2007-08

PMg Mar-Jun07 [16] - Partners Magazine March-June 2007

MN123a [Vietnamese] [17] - Agricultural development and land policy in Vietnam

CP09 [18] - Country Profiles 2006

EXT01 [19] - Master Plan for Agricultural Research Cambodia

MN123 [20] - Agricultural development and land policy in Vietnam

MN118 [21] - Integrating knowledge for river basin management

AR 2004-05 [22] - Annual Report 2004-05

MN116 [23] - China's agricultural and rural development in the early 21st century

IAS34 [24] - Identifying the Sex Pheromone of the Sugarcane Borer Moth

IAS33 [25] - Research into Conservation Tillage for Dryland Cropping in Australia and China

PMg Summer 05-06 [26] - Partners Magazine December 2005

PMg December 04 [27] - Partners Magazine December 2004

PMg September 04 [28] - Partners Magazine September 2004

IAS31 [29] - Review of ACIAR's Research on Agricultural Policy

IAS30 [30] - Eucalypt tree improvement in China

CP10 [31] - Country Profiles 2005

MN052 [32] - Improving Smallholder Farming Systems in Imperata Areas of Southeast Asia: Alternatives to Shifting Cultivation

MN055 [33] - Food and other Crops in Fiji

WP47 [34] - Results of a Social and Economic Impact Assessment of Integrated Pest Management Strategies in Brassica Vegetable Crops in China

MN112 [35] - Landcare in the Philippines: Stories of People and Places

IAS28 [36] - Water and Nitrogen Management in Wheat-Maize Production on the North China Plain

IAS26 [37] - Impact Assessment of ACIAR-Funded Projects on Grain-Market Reform in China

IAS25 [38] - Genetics of and Breeding for Rust Resistance in Wheat in India and Pakistan

IAS29 [39] - Impact Assessment of Research on the Biology and Management of Coconut Crabs on Vanuatu

AR 2003-04 [40] - Annual Report 2003-04

MN099 [41] - Developing agricultural solutions with smallholder farmers - how to get started with participatory approaches

AR 2002-03 [42] - Annual Report 2002-03

TR52 [43] - Rice-shrimp farming in the Mekong Delta: biophysical and socioeconomic issues

MN097 [44] - Effects of Globalisation and Economic Development on the Asian Livestock Sector

MN098 [45] - Domestication of Chukrasia

PR046 [46] - Draught Animal Power in the Asian-Australasian Region

PR086 [47] - Leucaena: adaption, quality and farming systems

TR43 [48] - Grain Market Reform in China: Global Implications

PR099 [49] - Food Security for Papua New Guinea

TR25 [50] - Economic Aspects of Raw Wool Production and Marketing in China

MN019 [51] - Draught Animal Systems: an Indonesian Study

MN022 [52] - Food Price Policy in Indonesia

PR024 [53] - Smallholder Agricultural Development in Tonga

MN038 [54] - Protected area assessment in Vanuatu: a socieconomic approach

MN078 [55] - Soil Conservation Technologies for Smallholder Farming Systems in the Philippine Uplands

IAP-WP11 [56] - Project development assessment: the application of plant tissue culture techniques to the propagation and breeding of tea in Indonesia

PR026 [57] - Economics of Fishery Management in the Pacific Islands Region

TR41 [58] - SCUAF Version 4: A model to estimate soil changes under agriculture, Agroforestry and Forestry

IAP-WP46 [59] - Understanding the socioeconomic significance of livestock disease with particular reference to surra (trypanosomiasis) in selected Communities in eastern Indonesia

TR08 [60] - New Technologies for Rainfed Rice-based Farming Systems in the Philippines and Sri Lanka

TR17 [61] - Rice Production in Sri Lanka: a combined agronomic/economic study in the intermediate and dry zones

TR15 [62] - Marketing Perspectives on a Potential Pacific Spice Industry

IAP-WP06 [63] - Project development assessment: Pacific Island pearl oyster resources development (project 9131)

PR064 [64] - Integration of Ruminants into Plantation Systems in Southeast Asia

IAP-WP30 [65] - A global agro-climatic analysis of the distribution and production of livestock commodities

MN075 [66] - Socio-Economic Evaluation of the Potential for Australian Tree Species in the Philippines

TR11 [67] - Economic Prospects for Vanilla in the South Pacific

MN039 [68] - Economic evaluation of agricultural research in Australia and New Zealand

FR2007-06 [69] - The vegetable industry in the Philippines

CP08 [70] - Improved technology practices for upland crops in Cambodia: technical methods demonstration manual