The unique graduate development program run by ACIAR has been recognised on its 10th anniversary as one of the best in Australia. ACIAR’s graduate program, which engages young Australian agricultural scientists in a two-year experiential-learning program, has been named as a finalist in the 2019 Australian HR Awards. The awards recognise outstanding achievements at the forefront of the human resource industry in Australia, with the winners announced at an awards night in September 2019.

Could artisan chocolate do for Bougainville what whisky has for Scotland? Melbourne, for all its undoubted charms, is not usually associated with development in tropical agriculture. But when your product is the basis of that most urban and urbane of foods—chocolate—then the elegant Victorian state capital becomes a key location. Steven and Elizabeth Saveke, cocoa growers from Siwai on the Papua New Guinean island of Bougainville, recently spent a week in Melbourne after winning the 2018 Bougainville Chocolate Festival competition.