Doctor Adam Komarek
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW,
Dean's Unit - School of Sciences and Health
Personal
Qualifications
- PhD University of Sydney
- BScAg University of Sydney
UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Dean's Unit - School of Sciences and Health
Contact
| Email: | A.Komarek@uws.edu.au |
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| Extension: | 1475 |
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| Location: | K8.42 Hawkesbury |
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Biography
Adam Komarek commenced in July 2009 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Natural Sciences. Adam's research focuses on agricultural development economics, including evaluating development strategies, developing quantitative models to examine rural household decision making, and measuring economic, food security and environmental tradeoffs in farming systems. Adam has previously lectured in agricultural and environmental economics at The University of Sydney and at the University of New South Wales. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture and a PhD in Agricultural Economics from The University of Sydney (2004 and 2008, respectively).
This information has been contributed by Doctor Komarek.
Publications
Journal Articles
- 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: | Rural Household Livelihood Analysis in Western China |
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