This edition of Partners focuses on Vietnam and highlights a rich history of investment and partnership of almost 30 years with ACIAR.   Recent visits to Vietnam by the Commission for International Agricultural Research, Policy Advisory Council and ACIAR staff have confirmed that the partnership is in great shape, ready to advance into genuine co-investment in co-designed programs around jointly agreed priorities. The articles in this edition of Partners reflect a highly productive partnership that benefits both Australia and Vietnam. 

This issue of Partners magazine explores innovation in agriculture.

This issue of Partners magazine focuses on globalising agrifood chains and examines how ACIAR-funded research is providing healthy, nutritious and safe food for smallholder farmers while developing more sustainable and resilient food systems.

In this issue of Partners magazine we are having another look at climate change resilience.

This issue of Partners magazine focuses on the Pacific in celebration of the upcoming Pacific Week of Agriculture in Samoa. We cover topics as diverse as composting to improve atoll soils, to better weather forecasts and advisories to help farmers plan for climate variability.

This issue of Partners magazine features articles about how ACIAR’s research is empowering women and girls and working towards gender equity.

The feature article of Partners magazine’s first issue for 2019 looks at how ACIAR is helping to develop ‘balanced scientists’—agricultural researchers who are not only highly proficient in their particular technical fields, but also have good communication and leadership skills. Developed with the University of New England, this new ACIAR leadership program provides an initial 25 John Allwright fellows with 15 months of blended leadership learning, delivered both face-to-face and online.

In the final edition for 2018, Partners in Research for Development  focuses on the relationship between agriculture and nutrition and the double burden facing developing countries in combating hunger and obesity. Although the number of people starving has halved since 1969, two billion people still lack vital micronutrients such as iron and vitamin A, and 2.1 billion adults are overweight or obese.

As our closest neighbour, improving food security, biosecurity and human nutrition and health in PNG will always be a very high priority for Australian aid, and ACIAR in particular. We are very proud of our track record in PNG, and the stories in this magazine attest to the value of this enduring partnership. In this issue:

  Thirty years ago, ACIAR published the first edition of our flagship Partners magazine. This birthday edition offers an opportunity to reflect on ACIAR’s track record, and more importantly, our future. This special edition of Partners reflects on some of ACIAR’s achievements over the last three decades, from Africa through Asia to the Pacific, across many agricultural sectors, fisheries and forestry. In this issue:

  Partners in Research for Development is the flagship publication of the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). Partners presents articles that summarise results from ACIAR sponsored research projects and puts ACIAR research initiatives into perspective. In this issue: