This book (edited with Professor Stewart Lockie from the Australian National University) explores the relationships between the exploitation and conservation of agricultural biodiversity and the livelihoods of agricultural communities, and evaluates the capacity of national and multilateral institutions and policy settings to support the...
The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) has published a report written by Dr David Carpenter (Sustineo) and Professor Mark McGillivray (Deakin University) that presents a methodology for assessing the poverty-reducing impact of Australia’s international agricultural research. This report details a mixed method...
This scoping study will be the precursor to a larger poverty study to be undertaken later in 2012. The study, led by Dr David Carpenter, will adapt the methodology developed during our previous work with ACIAR to an analysis of the poverty reducing impacts of the AusAID/ACIAR-funded Seeds of Life project. ‘Seeds of Life’ (SOL) is a program within...
An article
co-authored by David Carpenter, with colleagues from the Australian National
University, has recently been published by the International Journal of
Sociology of Agriculture and Food. The article ‘Is De-agrarianization
Inevitable? Subsistence, Food Security and Market Production in the Uplands of
Negros Occidental, the Philippines’,...