Assoc Prof. Oscar Cacho
Assoc.Prof, Faculty of The Professions, School of Business Economics and Public Policy, School of Economics
Qualifications
Bsc (UAM), Msc (Auburn), PhD (Auburn)
Contact
| Email: | ocacho@une.edu.au |
| Room: | W040 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3215 (or +61 2 6773 3215 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3596 |
Areas of Teaching
Bioeconomics; agricultural risk analysis; natural resource economics; quantitative methods applied to economics, applied production and price analysis; sector planning and input/output analysis; farm management; applied computer programming; business decision making.
Research interests
Economics of land degradation, renewable resources, aquaculture and grazing systems; bioeconomic modelling; risk analysis; climate change.
Link to research projects
Consultancy
Fishery Information Management Systems, U.S.A. (1989):Developed a computer program to schedule probabilistic catch and fishing effort surveys.
Wildlife International Ltd. U.S.A. (1990): Developed a computer program to design and manage environmental impact experiments.
Ministry for the Environment, Wellington, New Zealand (1992): "Using option pricing theory to estimate option value: A preliminary study." Implemented a computer program to evaluate operating policies of a gas field. Participated in the elaboration of the report.
Centre for Resource Management, Lincoln, New Zealand (1993): Developed a dynamic model to analyze optimal strategies for exploitation of fishery resources under stochastic conditions.
University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan (1996): Three-month in-country assignment, acted as technical advisor under a twinning agreement financed by the World Bank.
Inner Mongolia Grasslands Conservation Project - AUSAID (1999): Was subcontracted by Hassall's International to design a six-week training course on farm economics and relational database management.
CSIRO Marine Science (1999): Cost benefit analysis of prawn aquaculture production on the eastern coast of Australia.
CRC for Plant-Based Management of Dryland Salinity (2003-2006): Economic analysis of salinity management at the catchment level.
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (2003): Potential for carbon sequestration and poverty alleviation in smallholder agroforestry projects under the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol. Dowload Report .Selected Publications
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Kinnucan, H., Cacho, O.J. and Hanson, G.D. 1986. Effects of selected tax policies on management and growth of a catfish enterprise. Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics. 18: 215‑225.
Cacho, O.J., 1990. Protein and fat dynamics in fish: A bioenergetic model applied to aquaculture. Ecological Modelling. 50:33-56.
Cacho, O.J., Hatch, U. and Kinnucan, H. 1990. Bioeconomic analysis of fish growth: Effects of dietary protein and ration size. Aquaculture. 88:223-238.
Cacho, O.J., Kinnucan, H. and Hatch, U. 1991. Optimal control of fish growth. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 73:174-183.
Cacho, O.J. 1993. A practical equation for pasture growth under grazing. Grass and Forage Science, 48:387-394.
Tai, C.F., Hatch, L.U. Masser, M.P., Cacho, O.J. and Hoffman, D.G. 1994. Validation of a growth simulation model for catfish. Aquaculture. 128:245-254.
Cacho, O.J., Finlayson, J.D. and Bywater, A.C. 1995. Simulation of grazing sheep: II. Whole farm model. Agricultural Systems. 48:27-50.
Finlayson, J.D., Cacho, O.J. and Bywater, A.C. 1995. Simulation of grazing sheep: I. Animal growth and intake. Agricultural Systems. 48:1-25.
Cacho, O.J., 1997. Systems modeling and bioeconomic modeling in aquaculture. Aquacultural Economics and Management., 1:45-64.
Cacho, O.J., Bywater, A.C. and Dillon, J.L 1999. Assessment of production risk in grazing models. Agricultural Sytems. 60:87-98.
Cacho, O.J and Simmons, P. 1999. A genetic algorithm approach to farm investment. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 43(3):305-322.
Scott, J. and Cacho, O.J. 2000. Modelling the long-term effects on farm net worth of investments in pasture fertilizer under constraints of family expenditure. Agricultural Systems, 63:195-209.
Cacho, O.J., Greiner, R. and Fulloon, L. 2001. An economic analysis of farm forestry as a means of controlling dryland salinity. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 45: 233-256.
Greiner, R. and Cacho, O.J. 2001. On the efficient use of a catchment’s land and water resources: dryland salinization in Australia. Ecological Economics. 38: 441-458.
Cacho, O.J. 2001 An analysis of externalities in agroforestry systems in the presence of land degradation. Ecological Economics. 39: 131-143.
Purnamasari, R., Cacho, O.J. and Simmons, P. 2002. Management strategies for Indonesian rubber production under yield and price uncertainty: a bioeconomic analysis’. Agroforestry Systems. 54: 121-135.
Hean, R.L. and Cacho, O.J. 2002. Mariculture of giant clams, Tridacna crocea and T. derasa: management for maximum profit by smallholders in Solomon Islands, Aquaculture Economics and Management 6: 373-395.
Hean, R.L. and Cacho, O.J. 2003. A growth model for giant clams Tridacna crocea and T. derasa. Ecological Modelling. 163 (1-2): 87-100
Hester, S. and Cacho, O.J. 2003. Modelling apple orchard systems. Agricultural Systems. 77: 137-154.
Odom, D.I.S., Cacho, O.J., Sinden, J.A. and Griffith, G.R. 2003. Policies for the management of weeds in natural ecosystems: the case of scotch broom (Cytisus scoparius, L.) in an Australian national park. Ecological Economics. 44: 119-135.
Cacho, O.J., Hean, R.L. and Wise, R. 2003. Carbon-accounting methods and reforestation incentives. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. 47: 153-179.
Cacho, O.J., Wise, R. and MacDicken, K. 2004 Carbon monitoring costs and their effect on incentives to sequester carbon through forestry. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 9 (3): 273 – 293.
Keys, S., Crocos, P. and Cacho. O.J. 2004.Commercial growout performance and cost-benefit analysis for farm production of the brown tiger shrimp Penaeus esculentus. Aquaculture Economics and Management. 8 (5-6): 295-308.
Cacho, O.J. Marshall, G.R. and Milne, M. 2005. Transaction and abatement costs of carbon-sink projects in developing countries, Environment and Development Economics 10(5): 1-18.
Odom, D.I.S., Sinden, J.A., Cacho, O.J., and Griffith, G.R. 2005. Economics issues in the management of plants invading natural environments: Scotch broom in Barrington Tops National Park. Biological Invasions 7: 445–457.
Simmons, P. and Cacho, O.J. 2005. A possible conflict between economic efficiency and political pressure. Computational Economics. 26: 129-140.
Sinden, J. Jones, R., Hester, S., Odom, D., Kalisch, D., James, R., Cacho, O. and Griffith, G. 2005. The economic impact of weeds in Australia. Plant Protection Quarterly. 20 (1): 25-32.
Wise, R.M. and Cacho, O.J. 2005 A bioeconomic analysis of carbon sequestration in farm forestry: a simulation study of Gliricidia sepium. Agroforestry Systems. 64: 237-250.
Wise, R.M. and Cacho, O.J. 2005. Tree-crop interactions and their environmental and economic implications in the presence of carbon-sequestration payments. Environmental Modelling and Software. 20 (9): 1139-1148.
Alford, A.R. , Hegarty, R.S., Parnell, P.F., Cacho, O.J., Herd, R.M. and Griffith, G.R. 2006. The impact of breeding to reduce residual feed intake on enteric methane emissions from the Australian beef industry. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture. 46: 813–820.
Behrendt K., Cacho O., Scott J.M. and Jones, R. (2006). Methodology for assessing optimal rates of pasture improvement in the high rainfall temperate pasture zone. Austalian Journal of Experimental Agriculture. 46 (6-7): 845-849.
Cacho, O.J., Spring, D., Pheloung, P. and Hester, S. 2006. Evaluating the feasibility of eradicating an invasion. Biological Invasions. 8 (4): 903-917.
Cacho, O.J. Bioeconomics of invasive species in aquatic ecosystems. 2006. Aquaculture Economics and Management. 10(2):107-124.
BOOK CHAPTERS AND MONOGRAPHS
Cacho, O.J. 1993. Development and implementation of a fish-farm bioeconomic model: A three stage approach. In: Hatch, L.U. and Kinnucan, H.W. (ed.), Aquaculture: Models and Economics. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, ISBN 0-8133-8534-2. 55-72.
Cacho, O.J., Marshall, G.R. and Milne, M. 2003. Smallholder agroforestry projects: potential for carbon sequestration and poverty alleviation. Agriculture and Economic Development Analysis Division, The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). ESA Working Paper, 03-06. (http://www.fao.org/es/esa/pdf/wp/ESAWP03_06.pdf).
Cacho, O.J., Hean, R. and Greiner R. 2004. Principles and suggestions for combining hydrology and economic models for dryland-salinity management. In Graham, T.W., Pannell, D.J. and White, B. (eds). Dryland Salinity: Economic Issues at Farm, Catchment and Policy Levels, Cooperative Research Centre for Plant-Based Management of Dryland Salinity, University of Western Australia, Perth. ISBN 1-74052-104-8. pp. 55-69.
Alford, A., Griffith, G. and Cacho O.J. 2004. A Northern Tablelands whole-farm linear program for economic evaluation of new technologies at the farm-level. Economic Research Report No. 13, NSW Agriculture, Armidale, March.
Hean, R., Cacho, O.J. and Menz, K. 2004. Farm forestry, carbon-sequestration credits and discount rates. In Graham, T.W., Pannell, D.J. and White, B. (eds). Dryland Salinity: Economic Issues at Farm, Catchment and Policy Levels, Cooperative Research Centre for Plant-Based Management of Dryland Salinity, University of Western Australia, Perth. ISBN 1-74052-104-8. pp 133-144.
Cacho, O.J. and Hean, R.L. 2004. Dynamic optimization for evaluating externalities in agroforestry systems: an example from Australia. In Alavalapati, J.R.R. and Mercer, D.E. (eds.), Valuing Agroforestry Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 141-165.
Sinden, J. Jones, R., Hester, S., Odom, D., Kalisch, D., James, R. and Cacho, O. 2004. The economic impact of weeds in Australia. CRC For Australian Weed Management, Technical Series # 8. (ISBN 1-920932-47). 55pp.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
Cacho, O.J. and U. Hatch, 1990. Dynamic optimization of feed quality and quantity in fish culture. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 72(1990):1345.
Cacho, O.J. and A.C. Bywater, 1991. Managing complexity: An object-oriented approach to the simulation of grazing systems. Proceedings of the Simulation Society of Australia, 9:214-219.
Cacho, O.J. 1995. Simulation models and sustainability of grazing systems. International Congress on Modelling and Simulation,Proceedings, University of Newcastle, 28-31.
Cacho, O.J., 1997. Dynamic models, externalities and sustainability of grazing systems. Contributed Paper: 41st Conference of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. 8 pp.
Cacho, O.J. 1998. Solving bioeconomic optimal control models numerically. In Gooday, J. (ed.) Proceedings of the ABARE Bioeconomics Workshop, 22 January, University of New England, Armidale. 13-26.
Cacho, O.J., 2000. The Role of Bioeconomic Models in Renewable Resource Management and Assessment of Solution Techniques. Presented at the symposium: "Integrating Approaches for Natural Resource Management and Policy Analysis: Bioeconomic Models, Multi-Agent Systems, and Cellular Automata” at the XXIV International Conference of Agricultural Economists (IAAE), Berlin, August 2000. 11 pp.
Cacho, O.J., Marshall, G.R. 2003. Designing Smallholder Agroforestry Projects for Carbon Sequestration: The Role of Abatement Costs and Transaction Costs. “The Potential of Carbon Sequestration Through Land Use Change to Contribute to Poverty Alleviation: Comparative Micro-Economic Evidence”. 25th International Conference of Agricultural Economists, 16-22 August 2003, Durban, South Africa.
Cacho, O.J. 2004. When is it optimal to eradicate a weed invasion? In Sindel, B.M. and Johnson, S.B. (eds.) Proceedings of the 14th Australian Weeds Conference, Weeds Society of NSW, Sydney. pp 49-54. ISBN 0 9752488 0 4.
Cacho, O.J., Wise, R.M, Hester, S.M and Sinden, J.A. 2005. Weed invasions: to control or not to control? 49th Conference of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. Coffs Harbour, Feb 2005.
Cacho, O.J., Hester, S. and Spring, D. 2006. Applying search theory to determine the feasibility of eradicating invasive populations. 50th Conference of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. Sydney, Feb 2006.