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The PNG Family Farm Teams Manual

The aim of the Family Farm Teams program is to provide one female and one male family head from a household with a series of workshops and family activities that will enable them to work as a family team and to plan together the further development of their agricultural activities. The program can also be used with full family teams (adults, young adults and youth) and with other types of families, such as a widow and adult son, for example, or with polygamous families.

Quantifying crop yield gaps across the Indo Gangetic Plain (IGP) from new perspectives – production, farmer profit and sustainability of water use - Final report

This project aimed to quantify current yield gaps (physiological, economic, and sustainable-water) for major food crops at sentinel sites across the IGP, and make preliminary assessments on the effects of conservation agriculture-based system intensification (CASI) technologies, future climate scenarios, and some economic variables. View project page.

Enterprise-driven transformation of family cocoa production in East Sepik, Madang, New Ireland and Chimbu Provinces of Papua New Guinea

This project is fostering enterprise-driven transformation and increased production and profitability of smallholder cocoa in East Sepik, Madang, New Ireland and Chimbu Provinces of PNG.  Cocoa production in Papua New Guinea (PNG) is an important driver of rural development – it directly involves about 150,000 smallholder farming families and accounts for 18% of agricultural exports. However, old cocoa plantings have become overgrown, resulting in low yields, under-harvesting and heavy losses to pests and diseases.

Project code
HORT/2014/096
Program
Horticulture
Project start date
25 Mar 2016
Project end date
28 Feb 2021

The Good Cooks - Agricultural science and culinary creativity come together in kitchens around the world

An innovative television series commissioned by ACIAR premiered on SBS Food in November 2018. The Good Cooks takes six Australian chefs to remote parts of the world to learn how ACIAR is helping improve food security and sustainability practices while learning to cook like the locals.