Working Papers

WP63 Economics and market analysis of the live reef-fish trade in the Asia-Pacific region
Proceedings of the second workshop 14-16 March 2006, Penang, Malaysia.

WP62 Report on a review of ACIAR-funded projects on Rhizobium during 1983-2004
Rhizobium science and inoculation as a means of facilitating nodulation and nitrogen-fixation of legumes.

WP61 The seaweed industry in the Pacific Islands
Pacific island governments and communities are constantly seeking to tap new and established international markets for their farm produce.

WP60 Economics and marketing of the live reef fish trade in Asia-Pacific
The consumption of live reef fish is an important component of overall fish consumption in a number of Asian countries.

WP59a [Mandarin] A survey of the mineral status of livestock in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China
The Mandarin translation of Working Paper 59.

WP59 A survey of the mineral status of livestock in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China
This report is the outcome of a cooperative program involving scientists from the Tibet Academy of Agricultural and Animal Sciences, the Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Australia.

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

WP57 A Survey of Marine Trash Fish and Fish Meal as Aquaculture Feed Ingredients in Vietnam
Aquaculture is an important industry in Vietnam but one of the main constraints on increasing production is the lack of cost-effective feeds and feeding strategies

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

WP55 Forages for the Red Soils Area of China
This working paper covers the proceedings of an international workshop held in Jianyang, Fujian Province, Peoples Republic of China on the 6-9 October 1997

WP54 Mud Crab Aquaculture in Australia and Southeast Asia
Mud crab aquaculture has been practised for many years in Southeast Asia, based primarily on capture and fattening of juvenile crabs from the wild

WP53 Priorities for Pig Research in Southeast Asia and the Pacific to 2010
The majority of pig producers are smallholders, most of whom are located in rural areas

WP52 Watershed Management for Water Quality Improvement: the role of agricultural research
Land and water management is increasingly being based on watersheds

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

IAP-WP46 Understanding the socioeconomic significance of livestock disease with particular reference to surra (trypanosomiasis) in select
This project was designed to provide preliminary information about the cultural, social, political and economic context of livestock disease in Indonesia, and to determine the likely effect on the transfer to Indonesian institutions

IAP-WP45 Collect, access and use of agricultural statistics in the Pacific Islands
Informal discussions among SPC staff, many of whom have considerable experience of working in the Pacific Islands, suggested that there were problems with accessing and using agricultural statistical information in the region

IAP-WP44 Defining practical guidelines for evaluating long-term, smallholder decision-making in developing countries
Upon developing a new agricultural technology, national agricultural research services (NARS) and international agricultural research centres (IARCs) need to determine whether the innovation will provide long-term, sustainable benefits to their targeted stakeholders, usually smallholder farmers in developing countries

IAP-WP43 Impact assessment of 21 ACIAR-supported projects based at the University of the Philippines, Los Banos (1983-1995)
This paper discusses project evaluation of twenty-one ACIAR-supported projects based at the University of the Philippines at Los Banos (UPLB) funded between 1983-1995

IAP-WP42 Assessment of 25 ACIAR-supported projects in the Department of Agriculture of the Philippines
While ACIAR has invested heavily in scientific biological research in agriculture, interest has evolved in other areas of disipline such as in agricultural policy

IAP-WP41 Developing forage technologies with smallholder farmers: how to monitor and evaluate impacts
Electronic Version onlyThe Forages for Smallholder Project (FSP) is a participatory research program in Southeast Asia that commenced in 1995

IAP-WP40 Socioeconomic study on farmers' adoption of integrated pest management (IPM) strategies in brassica vegetable crops in China
China is both a big vegetable consumer and a big vegetable producer in the world

IAP-WP39 The dual approach to research evaluation: a simplified empirical illustration
In this paper, the dual approach to ex ante research evaluation in a multiple-input, multiplt-output industry is explained and demonstrated

IAP-WP38 Impact assessments of forty-nine Thailand/Australia collaborative projects funded by ACIAR during 1983-1995
There is strong evidence that agricultural research is an important source of growth in agriculture, resulting in economic and environmental benefits

IAP-WP37 Determining international agricultural research priorities
ACIAR was established in 1982 as a statutory authority within the Commonwealth Government's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

IAP-WP36 Research capacity and general community impacts of five ACIAR-sponsored projects
This report is the third resulting from a program of assessments being undertaken of impacts of ACIAR projects that were completed some five years previously

IAP-WP35 Poverty alleviation through agricultural research: the ACIAR experience
A recent external review of ACIAR (Nairn et al 1998) recommended (p 42) that ACIAR should more effectively communicate the way in which the benefits flow from ACIAR projects to ultimately achieve poverty alleviation

IAP-WP34 Research capacity and general community impacts of five ACIAR-sponsored projects
This small study is a second stage of a program of assessments being undertaken of the research capacity and community impact of bilateral projects sponsored by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) that were completed some five years previously

IAP-WP33 A qualitative assessment of the research capacity and community impacts of three randomly selected ACIAR-sponsored projects
This small study follows from an earlier study (Mauldon 1998) that examined the external reviews of 111 ACIAR-sponsored large bilateral projects completed between 1990 and 1997

IAP-WP32 ACIAR economic impact model for use in project development (ex-ante) and completed project (or ex-post) evaluations: a user's ma
This paper discusses the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) Economic Impact Model which can be used in ex-ante and ex-post evaluations of projects

IAP-WP31 An assessment of ACIAR-funded IARC special and restricted grants project
This report was commissioned as part of ACIAR's response to an audit review of its Multi-lateral Sub-program which recommended that it implement evaluations of completed Special Purpose and Restricted Grant projects funded by the International Agricultural Research Centre (IARC) program