Reports from the Second International Workshop on Production Technologies for Low-chill Temperate Fruits, Chiang Mai 2004.

The project evaluated in this report helped to identify the sex pheromone (attractant chemical) of the sugarcane borer.

The ACIAR projects evaluated in this report explored the suitability of Australian conservation cropping techniques for China, aiming to maximise wheat and maize yields while conserving moisture and reducing soil degradation.

The project evaluated in this report examined handling and storage methods in China and Australia for a number of leafy vegetables

This review includes a framework for assessing future 'ideal' policy projects; a meta-analysis of ACIAR's policy portfolio and a more detailed analysis of clusters of projects completed over the past decade in China, Indonesia and India

Eucalypt plantation forestry has become a major economic activity in China's southern provinces

Permanent raised bed cropping systems are being adopted under a wide range of irrigated and dryland farming conditions.

The challenge in using seasonal forecasting in agriculture is to assess and capture the potential benefits so that the well-being of people is improved in terms of increased food security, protection of the resource base, lower costs or better economic outcomes within the community

Tropical spiny lobsters, and particularly the ornate lobster Panulirus ornatus, are a valuable resource for most countries bordering the South China Sea

ACIAR is increasing its investment in ex-post evaluations. One component of this is an initiative to look back on all large projects (>$400 000 outlays by ACIAR) three to four years after their completion. This publication is the first complilation of reports on what has happened in our partner countries after the end of a group of projects’ lives. It is a first effort, and one ACIAR want to repeat each year.

As a result of its large population, China is the world’s largest producer and consumer of vegetables. The purpose of this assessment was to extend an earlier analysis by investigating the longer-term impacts of two ACIAR-funded projects. This report summarises the research procedures used, and the findings on integrated pest management impacts and factors that foster or constrain integrated pest management adoption.

Progressing beyond self-sufficiency, whether at the farm or national level, requires the capacity for reliable production and profitable marketing of products sought by consumers

The North China Plain supports a large number of highly intensive small farms that produce winter wheat traditionally followed by a summer crop of maize

Contains the main findings of a project carried out in Vietnam which focused on the operation and management of publicly managed irrigation systems

ACIAR and AIDAB (now AusAID) funded a suite of projects starting in 1985 with the aim of providing a science-based foundation for sustainable management of Vanuatu's coconut crab resources, for the benefit of the Ni-Vanuatu people

This impact assessment focuses on the net economic, environmental and social value of the spill-over benefits accruing to Vietnam

An assessment has been made of two projects (ANRE1/1992/028 and ADP/1997/021) funded by ACIAR dealing with economic research into grain-marketing policy in China

The main objects of ACIAR projects CS1/1983/037 and CS1/1988/014 were to investigate and enhance the sources of rust resistance in wheat in India and Pakistan, and to provide training for Indian and Pakistan rust scientists at the National Wheat Rust Control Program at the University of Sydney