Fresh perspectives from Sustineo

Sustineo Researcher publishes on Australian Food Systems

Sustineo's research consultant, Federico Davila, has published a short research piece on Australian food systems and policy in Ambiente.

Sustineo sends submission to the Senate Inquiry on Australian ODA

Attached in this page is Sustineo's submission to the Senate Inquiry into Australia's Overseas Aid and Development Assistance Program.

Rapid Review of the ILC Training to Employment Program

Sustineo undertook a rapid review of the Indigenous Land Corporation's Training to Employment Program.

Article Publication: Is De-agrarianization Inevitable?

Sustineo Principal Consultant David Carpenter is the co-author of a recent article published in the International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food.

Is it working? Indicators, goal displacement and the case of the AusAID ARF.

Increasingly, organisations – including government departments – are looking to evaluate the impact of their actions and build an evidence-base around what works. It’s something that’s easy to say but a harder to do: this kind of work requires people to really think...

Remittances & Economic Growth: Larger Impacts in Smaller Countries?

The paper finds that remittances have a positive impact on growth in Small Island Developing States (SIDS), but not in other countries. The result for the Pacific is striking suggesting that without remittances these countries would have recorded an average growth rate...

Publication of Agriculture, Biodiversity and Markets: Livelihoods and Agroecology in Comparative Perspective

The above publication co-edited by Sustineo’s Principal Consultant for International Development, Dr David Carpenter, was recently published through Routledge Publishers in London.

Growth & Foreign Direct Investment in the Pacific Island Countries

A research monograph has just been released by the ADRI-Sustineo research team that examines the impact of Foreign Direct Investment to the Pacific region.

The Latest UNDP Human Development Index Rankings: Further Evidence of Paradise Lost?

The UNDP has just released the Human Development Report. Eight of nine Pacific countries listed in the HDI are in the bottom 40 percent and PNG is in the bottom 20 percent with many African nations. What is more disturbing is that HDI rankings for Pacific Island...