There are three main parts to this paper. The first concerns the adaptation of conventional demand and supply theory to explain why and when the development of substitutes occurs. The second part is a discussion of four examples of substitutes that appear to have completed their developmental...

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...

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...