Doctor Adam Komarek
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW,
Dean's Unit - School of Science and Health
Personal
Qualifications
- PhD University of Sydney
- BScAg University of Sydney
UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Dean's Unit - School of Science and Health
Contact
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| Location: | K8.42 Hawkesbury |
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Biography
Adam's research focuses on agricultural development economics. This includes developing bio-economic models to test outcomes and trade-offs associated with agricultural productivity, policy, and price changes over different scales (field, farm and village) and time frames. He has worked in the field in China, India, Uganda and Australia. Adam earned a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture and a PhD in Agricultural Economics from The University of Sydney (2004 and 2008, respectively).
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Publications
Journal Articles
- Komarek, A. (2013), 'Farmer responses to changing risk aversion, enterprise variability and resource endowments', Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 20.
- Komarek, A., Waldron, S. and Brown, C. (2012), 'An exploration of livestock-development policies in western China', Food Policy, 9.
- Komarek, A., McDonald, C., Bell, L., Whish, J., Robertson, M., MacLeod, N. and Bellotti, B. (2012), 'Whole-farm effects of livestock intensification in smallholder systems in Gansu, China', Agricultural Systems, 9.
- Komarek, A. and Ahmadi-Esfahani, F. (2012), 'The impact of changing marketing conditions on Ugandan banana farmers', Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies, 15.
- Komarek, A. and Ahmadi-Esfahani, F. (2011), 'Impacts of price and productivity changes on banana-growing households in Uganda', Agricultural Economics, 11.
- Komarek, A. (2010), 'The determinants of banana market commercialisation in Western Uganda', African Journal of Agricultural Research, 10.
- Komarek, A. (2010), 'Crop diversification decisions: the case of vanilla in Uganda', Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture, 16.
Research
Current Projects
| Title: | Improving livelihoods with innovative cropping systems on the East India Plateau |
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| Years: | 2012-06-18 - 2015-09-30 |
| ID: | P00021049 |
| UWS Researchers: | Bill Bellotti, Adam Komarek and Peter Cornish |
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Supervision
Current Supervision
| Title: | Sustainable Intensification of Agricultural Production in Bhutan |
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| Title: | Rural Household Livelihood Analysis in Western China |
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| Title: | Improving Small Ruminant Productivity in Western China Through the Manipulation of Diet Digestibility and Feed Use Efficiency. |
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