"The new millennium has witnessed profound changes to the way donor countries are approaching international development - with the emphasis now on collaborative, people-centred development. This timely book explores how research and research culture need to adapt to mesh with this new reality....

The current ACIAR (Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research) guidelines forimpact assessment of agricultural development projects see impact assessment as being usefulfor both accountability to stakeholders and as a learning tool to find out what works, whatdoesn’t work and...

The current ACIAR (Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research) guidelines for impact assessment of agricultural development projects see impact assessment as being useful for both accountability to stakeholders and as a learning tool to find out what works, what doesn’t work and...

Sweet potato is by far the most important staple food in Papua New Guinea. While much is consumed as a subsistence crop, it is also an important income earner for many small holder farmers in the Highlands of PNG. Of the Highlands sweet potato sold, about 90 percent is traded informally on open...

In May, 2000 the Co-operative Research Centre for Sustainable Rice Production (henceforthcalled the Rice CRC) commissioned Professor John Spriggs and Mr Tony Dunn from CharlesSturt University to write a paper called Scoping out a Socio-economic Research Agenda. InJune 2000, Associate Professor...

In the context of (a) stability in domestic maize production, (b) a significant divergence between import and export parity prices for maize, and (c) random variability in world maize prices, Eastern and Southern African governments have for many years attempted to reduce the instability in...