Improving food security and farmers’ livelihood through productive and sustainable crops The Crops Program aims to increase the productivity and sustainability of major crops by exploring improved varieties and new crop management methods. The program is built on two complementary themes of genetics and sustainable intensification and diversification.
The Climate Change Program progresses the science and practice of how to transform food systems and livelihoods that are under the most pressure to adapt or to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Systems transformation requires a strong focus on social and institutional change, supported by technical analyses, to create fundamentally new ways in which livelihoods are sustained and food is produced. The research strategy aims to progress the science and practice of 3 pillars that support transformation:
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.
The mariculture of sea cucumbers, and in particular sandfish (Holothuria scabra), is regarded as an economically attractive enterprise to meet several challenges faced by small-scale coastal fishing communities in the Philippines. Community-based sandfish sea ranching is still in its early stages in the Philippines, but potentially can contribute to livelihoods and help replenish wild stocks.
A global research collaboration supported by ACIAR is helping countries around the world tailor new mungbean varieties to local conditions and markets.
Exploring opportunities for implementing conservation agriculture and sustainable intensification of smallholder farming systems in selected countries of the Pacific.
ACIAR-funded research in Northwest Vietnam is increasing the income of smallholder beef farmers through intensifying farming practice and building market linkages.
Promoting socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable agricultural intensification in West Bengal and Bangladesh, with an emphasis on water.
Dr Brendan Brown speaks about the future oF ACIAR
