Research in Agriculture

My research will look at the government contract with dairy producers: I will be concentrating on the areas of production cost, dairy producers motivation to enter and to stay in government contract and also looking at the bargaining power between both government officials and dairy producers.

My research tries to challange some international issues, such as the impact of trade libaralization on farmers, how farmers adapt from liberalization through contract farming, and the gain from trade liberalization on coffee sector. Moreover, the research is also based on some coffee problems in Indonesia, for instance domination of foreign companies in Indonesia which causes changing in market structure and the high of international price of coffee that are untransfered to vendors and/or farmers. In short, my research offers analyis of contract farming, market structure and trade liberalization impacts in case of coffee comodity in Indonesia.

The number of supermarkets chains increase significantly in developing countries. Some studies indicate that supermarkets chains could be have negative and positive impacts on small farmers and other participants in supply chain of high-food value agricultural products. This study will focus on the role of supermarket chains in supply chain of one of important tropical fruit in Indonesia, namely mango. There are two main aspects examining in this research, first how modern retail chains in Indonesia impact on small market participation as food safety standard, new grades and contracting mechanism evolve and second, how vertical coordination in mango commodities in Indonesia evolves in response to technological, financial, economic and relative institutional incentives. Through this research several strategies in order to improve the participation of small producers and reduce the transaction cost in vertical coordination of mango commodities could be produce.

The transformation of modern food retail outlets has changed market conditions facing producers as well as consumers. Several studies have examined the impact of the evolution of modern food retailers on small farmers, particularly those in developing or recently developed countries. This research focuses on examining the impact of the rapid rise of supermarkets on changes in consumers\x92 behavior and preferences for food and also on changes in household's dietary behavior. Multinomial logit models, conjoint analysis, dichotomous choice contingent valuation methods (DC-CVM), and instrumental variable methods will be used in this research.

This study will measures the impact of the modern vegetable supply chain on wet markets in East Java Indonesia. Despite the increasing popularity of supermarkets, previous studies in several Asian countries have shown that wet markets are still playing a major role in food retail, however, there have been no studies on this topic in Indonesia to date. This study will be conducted in five major cities in East Java. The study will examine the differences of market structure and performance between traditional and modern vegetables market supply chain after the emergence of modern markets. The second purpose of this study is to analyse of the differences of prices and food quality between traditional wet markets and modern market outlets. Furthermore, this study will observe the effective channel relationships between wet markets and their suppliers after the emergence of modern markets. It will also analyze the competitive advantages of wet markets related to whether and how they can survive against modern markets.

To analyse emerging water property markets in Australia with the purpose of contributing to a better understanding of the nature of water property rights and the institutional settings within which those rights might be exchanged. To perform such analysis using the theoretical frameworks provided by the Austrian School of economics and the new institutional economists in order to demonstrate that this approach gives rise to a more accurate and complete understanding than does analysis using neoclassical techniques.

To further explore the proposition that externalities are the Economist's attempts to deal with ill-defined property rights.