Kenyan agripreneurs fly high with black soldier flies
Women and youth agripreneurs in Kenya are finding a newer, cheaper and environmentally clean way of producing much-needed protein for livestock and fish feed.
Women and youth agripreneurs in Kenya are finding a newer, cheaper and environmentally clean way of producing much-needed protein for livestock and fish feed.
An evaluation of how and in which contexts Farmers’ Hubs facilitate the dissemination of new products, practices, and services to smallholder farmers and the broader farming community as commercial service providers.
Outcomes of the 2017–19 ACIAR Mango Agribusiness Research Program comprising five projects; AGB/2016/006, AGB/2016/007, AGB/2016/008, AGB/2016/009, AGB/2016/010.
An ACIAR-supported and Vanuatu Government-led agritourism initiative has won its first global award.
This project aimed to better understand key challenges facing Farmer Organizations, focused on the critical factors for successful development, and to identify practical ways for District Agriculture and Forestry Offices to use in advising smallholder farmers.
This project aimed to undertake a landscape analysis of the Philippines smallholder dairy industry and develop a series of research priorities which will include potential research partners for a future ACIAR project. View project page.
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.
This project aimed to evaluate how and in which contexts Farmers’ Hubs facilitate the dissemination of new products, practices, and services to smallholder farmers and the broader farming community as commercial service providers. The traditional view of innovation in agricultural systems involves linear information dissemination, usually from a research provider, through a publicly-funded extension system to support the adoption of new practices by farmers.