New development paradigms come and go, seemingly with increasing rapidity, yet poverty remains the scourge of the developing nations. As we enter the new millennium, we fear that still more development fads and fancies will emerge, to be taken up and then dropped by the development community....

This report provides guidance to the Desert Knowledge CRC Board and Management of issues in setting up an Australian Desert Brand that could be used to promote products and services from desert regions of Australia. Results are based on a review of the literature and 14 case studies of regional...

It is widely accepted that trust is the critical determinant of a good buyer-seller relationship. Using trust as the dependent variable, various measures of the farmers' satisfaction with the exchange, power-dependence and the relationship specific investments preferred trading partners provided...

Precision farming has the potential to increase farm productivity, lower input costs and increase expected returns. Despite these potential benefits, the adoption of precision farming technology in Australia has been relatively slow. One of the reasons for this is the lack of information...

Availability of seed and farm production factors, i.e., land and farm labour, formed a single factor that was found to be the most important factor influencing East-Javanese farmers’ decision to purchase seed. While such would suggest that the resulting impact of the factor may influence the...

Many farmers in West Timor operate small-scale mixed crop-livestock farms. In most of these farms, productivity of livestock production systems is quite low. There is, however, a potential to improve the contribution of livestock to total household income. Combining breeding and fattening...