Proceedings of the International Coconut Forum held in Cairns, Australia, 22-24 November 2005

Adoption studies provide valuable insights into the uptake of project results, and the impact on local communities. They also help ACIAR determine its research priorities and improve its capacity to select projects that will be scientifically successful and have a lasting benefit.

Irrigation systems in most of Vietnam, like in many countries, are public systems.

CAB International is one of the International Agriculture Research Centres that ACIAR provides funding for in its multilateral program.

Peanuts are an important cash crop for many smallholder farmers in Papua New Guinea.

Fast-growing hardwood plantations are increasingly important to the economies of many countries around the Pacific rim. However fungal heart rot and root rot are impacting on the industry.

ACIAR provided the Science and Innovation Commissioned Study with a submission detailing it's unique and interesting role which transcends both Australia's aid program and its innovation system.

The production of tea-tree oil from Melaleuca species in Australia began some 80 years ago, and the industry has grown steadily, if erratically, since then.

This report took the opportunity of an existing survey in India to try to measure poverty-reduction impacts of research.

While funding research in developing countries, ACIAR also delivers benefits to Australia and, in particular, to Australian agriculture.

To meet the escalating demand for animal protein in the Asia-Pacific region, ACIAR's challenge is to underpin the sustainability of increased livestock and fisheries production for poor farmers and consumers.

ACIAR has supported collaborative research on water management in agriculture in China for more than 15 years.

  The papers in this report were presented at the 2nd PNG Plant Protection Conference and include information on crop pests, diseases and weeds and their management, pest incursions and quarantine, and pest and disease identification.

Economic analysis of project benefits and costs suggests that the total investment in fruit fly research will deliver considerable benefits, mainly to Fiji, but also to Tonga, Samoa, the Cook Islands and Vanuatu.

This report describes a benefit-cost analysis carried out to quantify the economic impacts in Vietnam from adoption of the mud crab hatchery technology developed by two ACIAR-funded projects.

ACIAR is increasing its investment in, and expanding the range of, project evalutions. 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. These studies are designed to highlight the level of uptake of project results. This publication, the second compilation of reports for assessing the adoption of ACIAR projects, refers to projects completed in 2000-2001.

ACIAR's investment in bilateral research over the past 22 years has more than paid for itself, as revealed in a review of returns to ACIAR's Bilateral R&D investments.

The models and analyses presented in this report are designed to assist wool textile mills as they implement new operational procedures, management practices and decision-making processes.