Fact sheet about the ACIAR Climate Change Program, outlining the research strategy, number of projects and investment in climate change research.

Brochure about the ACIAR Climate Change Program.

The Annual Review features highlights and achievements for ACIAR during 2019–20.

This is the ACIAR Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2020. The report has been prepared in accordance with section 39 of our enabling legislation.

The Annual Review is a new publication featuring highlights and achievements for ACIAR during 2018-19 During 2018-19, ACIAR worked with 490 partner organisations in 35 countries throughout the Indo-Pacific region, to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers, fishers and foresters. As Australia's specialist agricultural research-for-development agency, our work continues to reinforce Australia's reputation in the region as a valued and trusted science partner.

The Annual Operational Plan (AOP) describes our intended work program throughout the Indo-Pacific region during 2019–20 year. It explains the context and priorities of our program areas, and describes our partnerships and projects ranging from our support and governance role with our largest partner, the CGIAR system and its 15 international research centres, to our brokering and management role of approximately 200 individual bilateral projects.

Australia works in an economic partnership with Indonesia, supporting Indonesia’s efforts to tackle inequality and maintain social stability, promote tolerance and pluralism, and counter violent extremism. This book is an excerpt of the ACIAR Annual Operational Plan 2019–20.

ACIAR is part of the Pacific family. Since 1982, we have been funding and connecting Australian researchers with their counterparts throughout the Pacific, helping reduce poverty and improve food security.  We are investing more than AUD$22million in agricultural research and partnerships across nine countries in the Pacific region, including Fiji, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. 

This is the Annual Report of the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) for the year ended 30 June 2019. The report has been prepared in accordance with section 39 of our enabling legislation—Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research Act 1982, as amended. Annual performance is reported in compliance with section 39 of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 (PGPA Act).

The ACIAR Corporate Plan for 2019–20 outlines our aspirations and direction for the next four years. Through partnerships, we will continue to grow the knowledge base for agricultural research-for-development, and in turn, improve livelihoods of smallholder farmers and fishers in our partner countries. Along the way, we will introduce new technologies, risk management and capabilities to Australian agriculture and agricultural sciences, generating a very high return on public investment.