Value chain research contributed substantially to scientific knowledge and demonstrated the benefit of a multidisciplinary systems approach.

Final report for ACIAR project FIS/2018/155, aimed at connecting communities and provincial and national line agencies to support national policies to promote healthier, more diverse diets.

Reducing poverty and improving small-holder farmer livelihoods in the Indo-Pacific region through more productive and sustainable agriculture emerging from collaborative international research.

Promoting the adoption of protected cropping systems appropriate for use in Pacific Island Countries and supporting growers producing vegetable crops using protected cropping systems in Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga to access high-value markets.

An outcome evaluation of several integrated agribusiness projects in Vietnam that were designed to improve vegetable production for women and ethnic minority smallholder farmers in Sơn La and Lào Cai provinces and to improve their access to fruit and vegetable markets.

Developing a Theory of Change for inclusive agribusiness models for market-oriented value chains in the Philippines

Improving farmers' incomes and livelihoods by developing sustainable and inclusive vegetable value chains in Myanmar and Vietnam.

A research project aimed at improving the livelihoods of the people living in the coral atolls of Kiribati and Tuvalu.

Increasing the crop yields of dryland farmers in Aceh to help them make a better living.

This project aimed to improve nutrition, employment and income opportunities for vegetable growers and their families in Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania's peri-urban areas, the outskirts of cities. Malnutrition, poor diet diversity and youth migration to cities are widespread problems in eastern and southern Africa. Residents undertake agriculture on the fringes of cities (peri-urban areas), often using resources (land, water, energy, labour) that could serve other purposes to satisfy the urban population's needs.

This project is reducing postharvest product and quality losses, and developing physical facilities and research skills for postharvest advancement in the Southern Philippines.  Vegetable consumption in the Southern Philippines is very low, averaging less than 30kg annually and resulting in increased rates of heart disease, hypertension and diabetes.  While this low consumption is partly due to cultural preferences for meat and rice, price and availability are also significant barriers. 

This project aimed to effectively and sustainably link vegetable suppliers in northern Vietnam with modern retailers. Vietnamese love vegetables, but Hanoi's scorching summer temperatures mean local farmers cannot grow popular crops such as tomatoes, cabbage and beans. Instead, such produce is imported from China or brought in from the south. The solution could be found in highland Moc Chau region, which is just four hours by road from Hanoi, sufficiently cool to grow temperate vegetables there in summer, and has 40,000 hectares of good farming land.

The Pakistani province of Punjab has predominantly a semi-arid climate where average temperatures rise above 40C during the summer. Vegetable production can be severely limited by periods of very high temperature. Although high temperature stress is less common in Australia, this is projected to change as climate becomes more variable (CSIRO Report, 2006).