Agricultural Policy and Systems Economics

WP58 Scaling out impacts: A study of three methods for introducing forage technologies to villages in Lao PDR [5]
Results of a study to research the effectiveness of three participatory extension methods for scaling out forage and livestock technologies to new villages

WP56 Agricultural Research and Poverty Alleviation: Some International Perspectives [6]
Poverty alleviation has become a primary goal of overseas development assistance for most donor countries and international financial institutions

WP47 Results of a Social and Economic Impact Assessment of Integrated Pest Management Strategies in Brassica Vegetable Crops in China [7]
The purpose of this assessment was to extend an earlier analysis by investigating the longer-term impacts of two ACIAR-funded projects

TR69 Achieving food security in China: implications of World Trade Organization accession [9]
A report on the effect of China's WTO accession commitments on its agricultural sector.

TR60 Building economic decision-making capabilities of Chinese wool textile mills [11]
The models and analyses presented in this report are designed to assist wool textile mills as they implement new operational procedures, management practices and decision-making processes.

TR54 Contract farming in Indonesia: Smallholders and agribusiness working together [12]
As developing countries continue on the path of economic liberalisation, there is an urgent need to bring the benefits of new trade and market opportunities to rural areas

TR53 Cooperatives: Issues and trends in developing countries [13]
This report is the outcome of a workshop held in 2003

TR52 Rice-shrimp farming in the Mekong Delta: biophysical and socioeconomic issues [15]
The papers presented in this report are the proceedings of the project's final review workshop, held in December 2000 at Can Tho University, Vietnam

TR43 Grain Market Reform in China: Global Implications [16]
The grain marketing system in China has become more competitive over the 1990s and domestic and international prices have become more closely aligned

TR41 SCUAF Version 4: A model to estimate soil changes under agriculture, Agroforestry and Forestry [17]
SCUAF is a computer model which predicts the effects on soils of specific land use systems under given environmental conditions

TR17 Rice Production in Sri Lanka: a combined agronomic/economic study in the intermediate and dry zones [18]
This is a companion volume to Technical Report No 13 (a study of rainfed rice production in Antique Province, Philippines)

TR15 Marketing Perspectives on a Potential Pacific Spice Industry [19]
The scarcity of information on spices became apparent during an ACIAR study on the economics of vanilla production

TR11 Economic Prospects for Vanilla in the South Pacific [20]
Information on the vanilla industry in the South Pacific has not been readily available, so this report was prepared to fill this information gap

TR08 New Technologies for Rainfed Rice-based Farming Systems in the Philippines and Sri Lanka [21]
This publication focuses on rice and rice based farming systems as critical components of the Asian food system

PR119 Agriproduct Supply-Chain Management in Developing Countries [23]
Progressing beyond self-sufficiency, whether at the farm or national level, requires the capacity for reliable production and profitable marketing of products sought by consumers

PR099 Food Security for Papua New Guinea [25]
Overall, food security is high in PNG as most rural people have access to land and can grow most of their food requirements

PR086 Leucaena: adaption, quality and farming systems [26]
These proceedings report the presentations at the international workshop on Leucaena held at the Vietnam National University in Hanoi, 9-14 February 1998 and comprise three major sections: Taxonomy and Agronomy, Forage Quality and Farming Systems

PR064 Integration of Ruminants into Plantation Systems in Southeast Asia [27]
There are already instances of successful introduction of ruminants into Southeast Asia's rubber, oil palm and coconut plantations, in ways that enable more intensive use of these areas

PR060 Postharvest Technology in Vietnam [28]
Vietnam is striving to increase its agricultural production, but gains in productivity are offset by large postharvest losses

PR026 Economics of Fishery Management in the Pacific Islands Region [29]
These are the proceedings of a conference held to assess the need for economic research into increasing fisheries productivity for island nations in the South Pacific region

PR024 Smallholder Agricultural Development in Tonga [30]
These proceedings detail the findings of the ACIAR smallholder agriculture project which were presented at a workshop held in Tonga in May 1988

MN126 Agricultural development and land policy in Vietnam: policy briefs [Bilingual version] [32]
A bilingual (English and Vietnamese back-to-back) version of chapter 12 of MN123: Agricultural development and land policy in Vietnam.

MN123a [Vietnamese] Agricultural development and land policy in Vietnam [34]
This is the Vietnamese translation of 'Agricultural development and land policy in Vietnam'.

MN123 Agricultural development and land policy in Vietnam [36]
The main aims of the project, which provided the information for this book, were to assess the impacts of the Vietnamese government's new policies on agriculture and to provide economic models suitable for analysing policy reforms.

MN118 Integrating knowledge for river basin management [38]
The authors have developed an integrated water resources assessment and management framework.

MN116 China's agricultural and rural development in the early 21st century [40]
This book discusses several of the key agricultural and rural development policy issues faced by China in the first years of the 21st century.

MN081 Policy Options for the Tree Crop Industries in Papua New Guinea [41]
This publications covers the outcomes of a research project funded by ACIAR aimed at developing the tree crops sub-sector in Papua New Guinea

MN080 Setting Policy Priorities for the Development of Tree Crop Industries in Papua New Guinea [42]
A set of assessments of policy options is made in this paper to identify policy priorities for the development of the tree crops sub-sector

MN078 Soil Conservation Technologies for Smallholder Farming Systems in the Philippine Uplands [43]
Human-induced soil erosion and consequent degradation of agricultural land in the Philippines upland is recognised as a major environmental and socioeconomic problem

MN075 Socio-Economic Evaluation of the Potential for Australian Tree Species in the Philippines [44]
This study has involved development of an approach to studying the prospects of, and impediments to, Australian tree species in the Philippines which is considered to have applicability to other forest technology transfer studies