Agribusiness Research - Value Chain Innovation

The focus of Agribusiness research within the School is agricultural food value chain innovation (VCI). This uses value chain analysis as a framework for economic, environmental and social development. The research scale extends from examining individual firms within chains, to whole of sector policy.

VCI research adopts a systems based approach. It draws on individual disciplines in diagnosing the performance of value chains and integrates results to develop innovation based solutions. This research is used to look at issues such as food safety and traceability, sustainable and ethical production, linking smallholders and markets, and value chain resilience and competitiveness.

The School has the largest postgraduate group that is involved in VCI in Australia (16 PhDs) and among the largest in the world. These research students are drawn from Australia, Nepal, Kenya, Pakistan, Malaysia, South Africa, UK and Canada.

Undergraduate Bachelor of Agribusiness students also conduct on-course international research projects in their final semester, funded by industry partners. Over 19 years we have conducted 70 projects in 16 countries with more than 300 researchers.

National partnerships include: University of Tasmania, University of Adelaide, Agriculture Western Australia, DEEDI

International partnerships include: University of Kent, UK; University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan; The George Morris Centre, Guelph, Canada; Centre for Agricultural Systems Research and Development, Vietnam; Huazhong Agricultural University, China.

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