Assessing impacts and progress against development objectives means evaluating much more than agricultural yields or gross margins per hectare. We need new approaches that are fit for purpose to evaluate the multiple and complex benefit streams that modern agricultural research for development seeks to catalyse.

This project aimed to improve the sustainability of a large and well developed, but low technology, ornate spiny lobster grow-out industry in Vietnam, and to address the knowledge gap that is limiting the establishment of a P. ornatus grow-out industry in Australia. With most capture lobster fisheries either fully or more often over-exploited, and in decline, aquaculture appears to be the only long-term way of meeting the insatiable market demand for lobster. View project page

Focussed on the valuation of fish in rural livelihoods, with Cambodia as a case study of the Mekong Basin, this project developed a new methodology combining quantitative economic surveys and qualitative open discussions. The approach covers income, nutrition, labour, health, and resilience, resulting in a detailed, multifactor assessment of the various roles of fish in rural livelihoods.

This project aimed to quantify current yield gaps (physiological, economic, and sustainable-water) for major food crops at sentinel sites across the IGP, and make preliminary assessments on the effects of conservation agriculture-based system intensification (CASI) technologies, future climate scenarios, and some economic variables. View project page.

This project aimed to improve understanding on the response of men and women farmers to changing weed dynamics due to Conservation Agriculture-based Sustainable Intensification (CASI) adoption in the Eastern Gangetic Plains (EGP) of South Asia. View project page.

This project aimed to explore the opportunities for sustainable development of groundwater resources within the three major aquifer typologies of Southern Laos for improved livelihoods and climate resilience.  View project page.

This project aimed to improve soil and irrigation water management in Laos and Cambodia to achieve sustainably improved vegetable yields and household economies.  View project page.

This study aims to provide an assessment including recommendation(s) on R&D investment opportunities which could enhance production and profitability of the abalone industry of Eastern Indonesia, and aims to determine the feasibility of enhancing current production of abalone in South East Sulawesi.

The research tests the usefulness and acceptability of a soil moisture sensor to African smallholder farmers.