Publications
Our research is published in scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. We also deliver commissioned reports and tools for our industry partners. Here are a select few.
The following list is a selection of recent publications from our centre staff and students. There are many more outputs published prior to this. If you are looking for a particular journal article or a list of outputs related to a specific topic, please use the
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Journal Articles​
Kidd, D. R., Enkhbat, G., Wisdom, J. M. B., Kragt, M. E., Jenkins, S. N., & Ryan, M. H. (2025). Black soldier fly frass greatly improves growth of four crops in a fertilised sandy soil. Journal of Cleaner Production, 520, Article 146046.
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Ding, J., Mugera, A., & Zhao, X. (2025). Outsourcing Fertilizer Mechanization Services to Different Types of Service Providers: Assessing the Impact on Fertilizer Application for Wheat Producers in China. Agribusiness, 1-13. Advance online publication.
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Massagony, A., Pandit, R., & White, B. (2025). Political economy of energy policy in Indonesia towards net zero emissions by 2060. ENERGY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, 88, Article 101757. Advance online publication.
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Hurlstone, M. J., White, B., & Newell, B. R. (2025). Threshold uncertainty, early warning signals and the prevention of dangerous climate change. Royal Society Open Science, 12(3), Article 240425.
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Hurlstone, M.J., McKie, G., Tapsuwan, S. and White, B. (2025). The Biosecurity Collective-Risk Social Dilemma: Simulating the Prevention of a Rapidly Spreading Pest.
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West, S. C., Mugera, A. W., & Kingwell, R. S. (2025). What drives the overall technical efficiency of farm businesses in the Wheatbelt of Western Australia? Analysis of persistent and transient efficiencies in the presence of firm effects. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 69(1), 137-156.
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Oumer, A. M., Burton, M., & Kassie, M. (2025). Dynamics of multiple sustainable agricultural intensification practices adoption: Application of the intertemporal multivariate probit model. PLoS One, 20(2 February), 1-17. Article e0314172.
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Saha, S., Alam, M. J., Al Abbasi, A. A., Begum, I. A., & Rola-Rubzen, M. F. (2025). Shifting Landscape of Rural Transformation in Bangladesh: Exploring the Interplay of Non-Farm GDP, Infrastructure and Education. Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies, 12(1), Article e70011.
Saha, S., Alam, M. J., Al Abbasi, A. A., Begum, I. A., Rola-Rubzen, M. F., Parikh, P., & Mckenzie, A. M. (2025). Can credit promote rural transformation? Evidence from district-level data in Bangladesh. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 12(1), Article 310. Advance online publication.
Xie, Z., Game, E. T., Phinn, S. R., Adams, M. P., Bayarjargal, Y., Pannell, D. J., Purevbaatar, G., Baldangombo, B., Hobbs, R. J., Yao, J., & McDonald-Madden, E. (2024). A scalable big data approach for remotely tracking rangeland conditions. Communications Earth and Environment, 5(1), Article 349.
Wang, H., Lin, W., Xie, R., Ma, C., & Gong, L. (2025). Can environmental investors stimulate corporate green technological innovation?—Evidence from China. Applied Economics, 57(35), 5232-5248.
Van Le, C., Burton, M., Hailu, A., & Ma, C. (2025). Promoting fast-growing species sawlog plantations by smallholder farms: evidence from a choice experiment study in Vietnam. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 55, 1-20.
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d'Abbadie, C., Kingwell, R., Vercoe, P., Plunkett, B., & Peggs, A. (2024). Heavy steers and heifers run at low stocking rates enhance drought resilience in a pastoral region of Australia. Agricultural Systems, 218, Article 103993.
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d’Abbadie, C., Kharel, S., Kingwell, R., & Abadi Ghadim, A. (2024). Should crop sequences in Western Australia include more lupins? Crop and Pasture Science, 75(1), Article CP23110.
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Al Abbasi, A.A., Saha, S., Begum, I.A., Rola-Rubzen, M.F., McKenzie, A.M., and Alam, M.J. (2024). Does rural transformation affect rural income inequality? Insights from cross-district panel data analysis in Bangladesh. Heliyon 10(9), 1- 16.
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Al Abbasi, A. A., Alam, M. J., Saha, S., Begum, I. A., & Rola-Rubzen, M. F. (2024). Impact of rural transformation on rural income and poverty for sustainable development in Bangladesh: A moments-quantile regression with fixed-effects models Approach. Sustainable Development. Advance online publication.
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Adenle, A.A., De Steur, H., Mwongera, C., Rola-Rubzen, F., et al. (2024). Global UN 2030 agenda: How can Science, Technology and Innovation accelerate the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals for All? PLOS Sustainability and Transformation 3(2).
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​Doughty, K. H., Middleton, J. A., Salini, M. J., Kragt, M. E., Partridge, J. C., Hemmi, J. M., & Martin, B. C. (2024). Food for thought: Valuable bioproduction pathways emerge in a circular food production model. Cleaner and Circular Bioeconomy, 9, Article 100102.
Ho, P. T., Burton, M., Hailu, A., & Ma, C. (2024). Transient and Persistent Technical Efficiencies in Rice Farming: A Generalized True Random-Effects Model Approach. Econometrics, 12(3), Article 23.
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Kharel, S., d’Abbadie, C., Abadi Ghadim, A., Gazey, C., & Kingwell, R. (2024). Liming acidic soils creates profits, land use options but often more emissions. Crop and Pasture Science, 75(10), Article CP24227.
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Lountain, S., Cooper, B., Crase, L., Burton, M., & Rigby, D. (2024). Insights into preferences for irrigation pumps in West Bengal: An application of best-worst-scaling. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 68(2), 349-365.
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Magar, D.B.T., Pandit, R. and Rola-Rubzen, M.F. (2024). Drivers of Overseas Labour Migration, Migration Intensity, and Destination Choice among Farming Households in Nepal. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
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Mburu, M. N., Mburu, J., Nyikal, R., Mugera, A., & Ndambi, A. (2024). Assessment of socio-economic determinants and impacts of climate-smart feeding practices in the Kenyan dairy sector. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 29(5), Article 32.
​Mburu, M., Mburu, J., Nyikal, R., Mugera, A., & Ndambi, A. (2024). Role of agricultural extension in learning for uptake and intensification of less-practiced dairy climate-smart practices in Kenya. Cogent Food and Agriculture, 10(1), Article 2330182.
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Mitchell, E., Takeda, N., Grace, L., Grace, P., Day, K., Ahmadi, S., Badgery, W., Cowie, A., Simmons, A., Eckard, R., Harrison, M. T., Parton, W., Wilson, B., Orgill, S., Viscarra Rossel, R. A., Pannell, D., Stanley, P., Deane, F., & Rowlings, D. (2024). Making soil carbon credits work for climate change mitigation. Carbon Management, 15(1), Article 2430780.
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Nyarindo, W. N., Mugera, A., Hailu, A., & Obare, G. A. (2024). Do combined sustainable agricultural intensification practices improve smallholder farmers welfare? Evidence from eastern and western Kenya. Agricultural Economics (United Kingdom), 55(2), 296-312.
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Paz, B., Hailu, A., Rola-Rubzen, M. F., & Rashid, M. M. (2024). Conservation agriculture-based sustainable intensification improves technical efficiency in Northern Bangladesh: The case of Rangpur. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 68(1), 125-145.
Rahman, R. A., White, B., & Ma, C. (2024). The effect of growth, deforestation, forest fires, and volcanoes on Indonesian regional air quality. Journal of Cleaner Production, 457, Article 142311.
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Rola-Rubzen, M.F., Alam, M.J., Sarmiento, J.M., and Begum, I.A., Abbasi, A.A. and Saha, S. (2024). Are Gender inclusiveness and rural transformation interlinked: The case of Bangladesh. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 23(6), 2112-2126.
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Sarmiento, J. M., Rola-Rubzen, M. F., Fogarty, J., & Digal, L. N. (2024). Smallholder Inclusion Through Cooperative Contract Farming of Cavendish Banana Farmers in Davao del Norte, Philippines: A Meta-Frontier Analysis. Agribusiness. Advance online publication.
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Sheikh, A. T., Hailu, A., Mugera, A., Pandit, R., & Davies, S. (2024). Soil quality evaluation for irrigated agroecological zones of Punjab, Pakistan: The Luenberger indicator approach. Agricultural Economics (United Kingdom), 55(3), 531-553. ​
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Sheikh, A.T., Chaudhary, A.K., Mufti, S., Davies, S. and Rola-Rubzen, M.F. (2024). Soil fertility in mixed crop-livestock farming systems of Punjab, Pakistan: The role of institutional factors and sustainable land management practices. Agricultural Systems, 218, 1-12.
Thapa Magar, D. B., Pandit, R., & Fay Rola-Rubzen, M. (2024). Drivers of overseas labour migration, migration intensity, and destination choice among farming households in Nepal. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 50(18), 4459-4483.
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Vuong, H., Pannell, D., Schilizzi, S., & Burton, M. (2024). Vietnamese consumers' willingness to pay for improved food safety for vegetables and pork. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 68(4), 948-972.
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Vieira, M. D. C., Manger, J., White, B., Berson, J. D., Dempster, F., & Evans, T. A. (2024). Estimating biocontrol agent spread: A case study using introduced dung beetles. Ecological Entomology, 49(1), 91-105.
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Wang, W., Yang, Z., Gu, X., Mugera, A., & Yin, N. (2024). How Farm Machinery Rental Services and Off-Farm Work Affect Household Income in China. Agriculture (Switzerland), 14(10), Article 1672.
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West, S. C., Mugera, A. W., & Kingwell, R. S. (2024). The impact of repayment obligations arising as a by-product of input use on partial inefficiency: Evidence from Western Australian farm businesses. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 68(3), 678-700.
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​West, S. C., Mugera, A. W., & Kingwell, R. S. (2024). What drives the overall technical efficiency of farm businesses in the Wheatbelt of Western Australia? Analysis of persistent and transient efficiencies in the presence of firm effects. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
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Xie, Z., Game, E. T., Phinn, S. R., Adams, M. P., Bayarjargal, Y., Pannell, D. J., Purevbaatar, G., Baldangombo, B., Hobbs, R. J., Yao, J., & McDonald-Madden, E. (2024). A scalable big data approach for remotely tracking rangeland conditions. Communications Earth and Environment, 5(1), Article 349.
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Young, M., Young, J., Kingwell, R., & Vercoe, P. (2024). Identifying high-value tactical livestock decisions on a mixed enterprise farm in a variable environment. Animal Production Science, 64(7), Article AN23407.
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Young, M., Young, J., Kingwell, R. S., & Vercoe, PE. (2024). Representing weather-year variation in whole-farm optimisation models: Four-stage single-sequence vs eight-stage multi-sequence. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 68(1), 44-59.
Books & Chapters
​Kingwell, R. (2025). Sustainability challenges in agriculture and food production. In M. John (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Global Sustainability Education and Thinking for the 21st Century (1 ed., pp. 157-170). Taylor & Francis.
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​​Bashir, M. K., Schilizzi, S. G. M., & Ali, G. (Eds.) (2024). Food Security in the Developing World. (1 ed.) John Wiley & Sons.
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Bashir, M. K., Schilizzi, S. G. M., & Farrukh, M. U. (Eds.) (2024). Introduction to the Issue: Food Security. In M. K. Bashir, S. G. M. Schilizzi, & G. Ali (Eds.), Food Security in the Developing World (1 ed., pp. 1-6). John Wiley & Sons.
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Kingwell, R. (2022). Sustainability Challenges in Agriculture and Food Production, Chapter 4. In (Eds: M. John and J. Segalas) Education for a Sustainable Future - Critical content, concepts and context, Taylor Francis.
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​Darbas, T., Brown, P., Das, K.K., Datt, R., Kumar, R. Pradhan, K. and Rola-Rubzen, M.F. (2020). The Feminisation of Agriculture on the Eastern Gangetic Plains: Implications for Rural Development, Chapter 6. In (Eds S. Lall, N. Kumar and K. Sinha-Kerkhoff) Bihar: Crossing Boundaries, Primus Books, Delhi (ISBN: 978-93-90022-28-1).
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Dixon, J., Rola-Rubzen, M.F., Timsina, J., Cummins, J. and Tiwari, T.P (2020). Socioeconomic Impacts of Conservation Agriculture based Sustainable Intensification (CASI) with particular reference to South Asia. In (Eds Dang Y.P., Dalal R.C., Menzies N.W.) No-till Farming Systems for Sustainable Agriculture, pp377-394, Springer, Cham. (ISBN: 978-3-030-46408-0 (print); 978-3-030-46409-7 (online).
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Rola-Rubzen, Villano, Brito & Hardaker (2020). Adoption of Integrated Crop Management Technology for Poverty Reduction and Food Security: The Case of Smallholder Rice Production in Timor Leste. In (eds Adenle, Chertow, Moors & Pannell) Science, Technology, and Innovation for Sustainable Development Goals: Insights from Agriculture, Health, Environment, and Energy. Oxford University Press, New York (ISBN: 9780190949518).​
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Reports
​​Bonney, P., Kearnes, M., Rickards, L., Hayes, J., Rollins, C., & Burton, M. (2025). Biosolids and the Public: Rethinking Community Engagement in a Time of Change. RMIT University.
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Sinclair, L., Pope, J., Holcombe, S., Hamblin, L., Pershke, D., Standish, R. J., Kragt, M., Subroy, V., & Young, R. (2022). Towards a framework for regional cumulative impact assessment. CRC TiME Limited.
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Dempster, F., Subroy, V., Harold, T., & Kragt, M. (2022). Market potential for black solider fly fertiliser products. The University of Western Australia.
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Tascon, A., Dempster, F., Kragt, M. (2021). Spatial Analysis of Farm Animal Waste in Australia. University of Western Australia. The University of Western Australia.
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Brown, P.R., Darbas, T., Kishore, A., Rola-Rubzen, M.F., Murray-Prior, et al. (2020). Implications of conservation agriculture–based sustainable intensification technologies for scaling and policy: Synthesis of SRFSI phase 1 socio-economic studies (2012–17), ACIAR Technical Report 93, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra.
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Martinus, K., Pauli, N., Heyworth, J., & Kragt, M. (2020). Land use stewardship interventions to prevent the emergence of pandemics. The University of Western Australia.
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Martinus, K., Pauli, N., Gunawardena, A., & Kragt, M. (2020). Humans as hosts, vectors and agents of environmental change. The University of Western Australia.
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