International Development

To achieve global food security over the next 40 years global agriculture production will need to increase by 50%.  We will have to produce more food through agriculture over the next 50 years than our total food production over the past 2000 years. It will be an enormous global challenge to achieve this output while also maintaining our natural environments and biodiversity. As part of our commitment to Saving the Planet, Feeding the World, our School is engaged in a variety of international development activities and we are actively expanding this engagement.

We seek to share our knowledge and expertise to help others to solve the problems they face and to develop the capacity to solve their problems without external assistance. To this end we:

• provide teaching and training through teaching and research degrees
• provide customized short training courses and master classes
• undertake research in development issues
• provide expert consultancies
• act as an executing agency to manage complex collaboration programs
• assist international organizations and agencies develop investment and action strategies

To find out more about our active and recently completed projects, click here...

UNE staff can find information about projects under development by going to the “for our staff” pages and/or contacting our International Development Coordinator,
Prof John Gibson.

Involvement in international development is an extremely rewarding experience. But getting started can be difficult. ERS offers guidance and scholarships to help our higher degree research students get experience in international development by taking part in an international development R&D project. Learn more...