Completed Training Activities
The short courses entail six weeks training with participants completing five weeks in Australia in either course 1 or 2. Both courses coming together for a single six day training workshop in Africa. The training employs a mix of on-campus and field based activities, covering production systems (including Funding Organisation Completed in 2015 Contact The short courses entail six weeks training with participants completing five weeks in Australia in either course 1 or 2. Both courses coming together for a single six day training workshop in Africa. The short courses employ a mix of on-campus and field based activities, covering various systems including water harvesting, waterponding, and waterspreading, plant-soil-water relations and irrigation design principles. Funding Organisation Completed in 2014 Contact Training for sustainable agriculture and food security, Community-Based Natural Resource Management, and community adaptation to climate change. The course was composed of twenty eight participants from Malawi, South Africa, Kenya, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Zambia, Swaziland and Uganda. Funding Organisation Completed in 2013 Contact Four week course for 20 delegates from Iraq focusing on how livestock production (sheep, cattle, poultry and goats) can be improved in Iraq. Topics covered were designed to enhance participant understanding of the factors limiting animal production and included modern husbandry approaches; feeding and nutrition; selective breeding; disease control; through to the latest techniques in genetic intervention. Funding Organisation Completed 2012 Contact Four week short course for 20 delegates from Iraq focusing on improving fodder production for livestock in Iraq. Topics covered included fodder selection, establishment, and management; livestock nutrition - practical tools for understanding animal requirements and the effectiveness of fodder for meeting requirements; feeding systems - practical feeding approaches to maximise the value of fodder for growth and Funding Organisation Completed 2012 Contact UNE was engaged by the Australian Centre for Agricultural Research (ACIAR) to run a workshop concerning the Outscaling and Upscaling of Agricultural Innovations. The main objective of this workshop (held in Nepal 31st August to 2nd September 2015) was to identify lessons learned from a variety of effective outscaling and upscaling case studies in the South Asian region. Among the workshop outputs were the development of outscaling and upscaling guidelines to be used by members of the innovation system. Funding Organisation Completed in 2015 Contact
Beef, Sheep, Poultry, Goat, Dairy and milk processing and Meat quality & safety).
AusAID, DFAT
Professor John Gibson
AusAID
Professor John Gibson
ATSE Crawford Foundation
Government of South Africa
International Centre for Agroforestry
Dr Julian Prior
AusAID/Iraq Partnership Facility
Professor John Gibson
reproductive purposes.
AusAID/Iraq Partnership Facility
Professor John Gibson
ACIAR
Dr Julian Prior