Beekeeping workshop attendees pose for a photo with Henao Longgar (in yellow) of the New Guinea Fruit Co. As part of a 5-year strategic plan, Australia Awards Papua New Guinea alumni Henao Longgar continues to share her beekeeping and entrepreneurial experience...
"If these indigenous chickens are lost, these rural communities will have nothing to depend on in terms of their household income and food security." -UNE PhD student Christopher Kanyama. Agriculture is the primary livelihood source for most rural...
What does it mean to be a Meryl Williams Fellow? Dr Thi Hoa Pham from Vietnam reflects upon her experience in the ACIAR funded program and the valuable mentorship she has received throughout the fellowship with insight from her mentor, anthropologist...
(Above) UNE PhD Student Kristina Fidale assisting rangers to count turtle eggs. “I find the interdisciplinary nature of investigation very enriching. I am intrigued learning that ordinary people can make extraordinary transformations that affect...
Congratulations and welcome to the new agricultural researchers and scientists from the Philippines who have been selected to take part in the prestigious John Dillon Fellowship. Supported by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, and...
You’ve heard of ‘cash cows’, but have you heard that goats are the new walking money-makers helping smallholder farmers grow their income? Positive signs have surfaced in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Laos) where researchers from the University of...
If, as Irish poet William Yeats said: "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire", then humble UNE graduate Van Touch is igniting opportunities wherever he goes. In 2012, Van came to UNE from Cambodia as an ACIAR-funded John Allwright...
With the earth’s soil as the second largest global carbon reservoir after the ocean, research on soil’s ability to sequester atmospheric carbon is of paramount importance to addressing climate change. “My research output will be valuable to find the mechanism of...
Congratulations to UNE PhD Research Fellow Md Sohel Rana who recently won the cash prize of $3,000 from the Poultry Hub Australia's Chook Chat Hack for his solution to helping next-gen poultry deliver food security. Watch his winning video...
After 8 years here at UNE Senior Researcher Dr. Eva Strucken will return to her hometown of Berlin, Germany to continue her scientific career as an agricultural researcher. Sharing her thoughts on leaving, Eva references the contrast of UNE and the regional city of Armidale,
