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Connections: Farm, Food and Resource Issues

Connections is refereed by Glenn Ronan and Bill Malcolm. The name reflects its origins, its intentions and the medium. It is a joint product of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES) and The School of Agriculture and Food Systems, The University of Melbourne. Connections is an extension publication, connecting material in farm and agribusiness, in marketing and management, in environment and resources.

Connections - 2008

Paper 27

Labour may use its loaf to end Coalition's inept wheat marketing policy: while not complete deregulation, the ALP's plan is a huge leap forward

Professor Paul Kerin

Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne

This article was published in the Australian 2011/07

I’m sick to death of the Coalition’s ineptitude on wheat. Meaningful reform is only sure to occur if the Coalition loses this Saturday. Should that happen they only have themselves to blame. An article in the latest issue of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics the most prestigious in the field found that current wheat marketing management cost Australia $US 224.7 million ($252 million) annually. The article is by Melbourne University's Donald McLaren and an English economist, not by anti-single desk Americans.On November 1, Melbourne University's Joshua Vans – whose past work AWB cited as "evidence" that the single desk earned a huge price premium – wrote (@www.economics.com.au) that “the ALP’s policy appears to be moving towards a better outcome”, describing its plan to provide “more competition” as “a solid policy option”.

Paper 28

A virtual paper on virtual water

Dave Appels, Alistair Watson, David Briggs and Mike Woolston

Frontier Economics

This note examines the methodology for estimating virtual water and identifies several important flaws in the virtual water concept. These flaws render the virtual water concept meaningless and casts serious doubts on the wisdom of applying the concept of virtual water to draw conclusions regarding the desirability or otherwise of alternative production activities.

Paper 29

Food Miles: a critical evaluation

Ismo Rama and Patrick Lawrence

‘Food miles’ is an inadequate and potentially misleading measure of the
environmental and economic impact of food. Distance travelled is not necessarily a good indicator for transport emissions, and fails to consider other environmental impacts (including other greenhouse gas emissions) associated with food production. Further, there may be negative impacts on economic development by effectively penalising non-locally produced food.

Editors

Glenn Ronan, Co-editor and Principal strategy Consultant, corporate Strategy and Policy, Primary Industries and Resources South Australia. email:ronan.glenn@saugov.sa.gov.au

Bill Malcolm, Co-editor and Associate Professor, Faculty of Land and Food resources, The University of Melbourne, Victoria. email:b.malcolm@unimelb.edu.au

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