A new state-of-the-art gene bank has been opened in Morocco by the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA). Gene banks play a crucial role in providing the materials required by researchers and global breeding programs to develop high-yielding, resilient and climate-adapted crops.
Smallholder farmers in Western Province are benefitting from a joint Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Australian-developed training to increase women and youth participation in agriculture and improve rural livelihoods.
ACIAR will soon have a blueprint to help facilitate the results from agricultural research being used to help inform policy in Lao PDR. Developed through ACIAR-supported research led by the Australian National University (ANU), the blueprint stems from a 2-year investigation looking at why some research projects were successful at informing policy and why some were not. It was found that evidence-based policies are more likely to meet intended goals and have a more significant impact.
A global research collaboration supported by ACIAR is helping countries around the world tailor new mungbean varieties to local conditions and markets.
An ACIAR-supported and Vanuatu Government-led agritourism initiative has won its first global award.
Capitalising on local community knowledge and capabilities in PNG is the focus of new research that will build community resilience against growing livelihood threats.
ACIAR-funded research in Northwest Vietnam is increasing the income of smallholder beef farmers through intensifying farming practice and building market linkages.
Dr Brendan Brown speaks about the future oF ACIAR
Dr Harry Nesbitt reflects on the Seeds of Life projects
