UNE Business School and the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society present the

 2014 Jack Makeham Memorial Lecture

 12.30 pm, Thursday 6 November; Lecture Theatre (LT2), W40, Economics, Business and Law Building

 Applied farm management and economic analysis in Australia and Cambodia

Fiona Scott

NSW Trade & Investment

Abstract

Fiona Scott was trained at UNE during the early 1990s in the farm management economics courses heavily influenced by Jack Makeham. She will describe how she has applied this training in economic analyses of cropping, grazing and mixed farming systems in NSW and upland cropping in Cambodia. Jack emphasised the importance of combining the human, technical and economic aspects of a farm and of seeing the system from the farmer’s perspective. Taking a broad view of how farm decisions are made; assessing the farmer’s goals, resources and constraints; considering risk; and looking beyond the farm gate (for instance at government policies and available markets) have all been valuable in Fiona’s analyses of important farming systems for the NSW Government.

Fiona Scott is currently Senior Economist with the Economic Research Unit, Strategic Policy & Economics Branch, NSW Trade & Investment.