The Institute for International Development Fund (IID Fund)
The Institute for International Development Fund (IID Fund) obtains its capital from from its professional activities, members and associates, and public and private donations. Development activities cover:
• publications and media productions on development, culture and the arts
• artist exchanges and integration programs •sponsorship of seminars, workshops and other forums
• assisting exchanges of persons between countries
• research and development and education
• participation in government task forces
•cultural awareness education and mentoring.
The actual activities chosen for investment reflect the different interests of its more active members. In the scale of operation, the Fund’s activities in research have been the largest activities, particularly in fields related to salinity, land and water degradation and value chain logistics. The IID Fund has been particularly active in the areas of publishing, notably on different world views related to "sustainable agriculture" and food security. This began with in 1996 with the publication of a book by Prof. J L Falvey beginning entitled Food Environment Education; Agricultural Education in Natural Resource Management, co-published with the Crawford Fund for International Agricultural Research. The book was written in part at the Bellagio Centre supported by the Rockefeller Foundation. The results of the research can be found at http://www.landfood.unimelb.edu.au/dean/falveybk/index.html. Details of other books can be found on the publishing page.
The most recent publication in this series has been:
Small Farmers Secure Food
Survival Food Security, the World’s Kitchen & the Crucial Role of Small Farmers
Thaksin University Book Center in association with Institute for International Development
Australia, 2010
225 p. ISBN 978-974-474-023-6 (paperback)
The IID Fund also invested in an educational documentary on a seminar conducted by the South Australian Law Society on the land mark series of court actions including an appeal to the Privy Council and a royal commission associated with the Max Stuart case in the 1950’s that divided Adelaide and indirectly led to the end of the death penalty. The Adelaide News was an active participant in the press actions of the day that were instrumental in the appeals royal commission etc and the News Corporation were a co investor in the documentary. The seminar was chaired by The Hon. Justice Kirby AC CMG, then Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia with the assistance of Geoffrey Robinson QC and representatives of the press, aboriginal legal aid, criminologists and descendants of the community from Ceduna in South Australia where the crime took place. The documentary made use of material from the Film Black and White produced by an associate of IID.
More details on the documentary are provided under the legal studies page at Video Education Australiasia, whilst more information on the film and the associated case is available here.
The most recent publication in this series has been:
Small Farmers Secure Food
Survival Food Security, the World’s Kitchen & the Crucial Role of Small Farmers
Thaksin University Book Center in association with Institute for International Development
Australia, 2010
225 p. ISBN 978-974-474-023-6 (paperback)
The IID Fund also invested in an educational documentary on a seminar conducted by the South Australian Law Society on the land mark series of court actions including an appeal to the Privy Council and a royal commission associated with the Max Stuart case in the 1950’s that divided Adelaide and indirectly led to the end of the death penalty. The Adelaide News was an active participant in the press actions of the day that were instrumental in the appeals royal commission etc and the News Corporation were a co investor in the documentary. The seminar was chaired by The Hon. Justice Kirby AC CMG, then Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia with the assistance of Geoffrey Robinson QC and representatives of the press, aboriginal legal aid, criminologists and descendants of the community from Ceduna in South Australia where the crime took place. The documentary made use of material from the Film Black and White produced by an associate of IID.
More details on the documentary are provided under the legal studies page at Video Education Australiasia, whilst more information on the film and the associated case is available here.
Recent and Current IID Fund Projects
The fund sometimes supports public lectures in subjects related to the broad subject of rural development, for example this lecture on food security, a subject that will re-emerge more frequently now that more than 50% of the worlds population lives in cities
http://adsri.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/documents/Lyndsay%20Falvey.pdf
The Fund is involved in an applied research project adapting halophyte plants patented in the United States, to different salt affected areas in Australia. Four plants, named NyPa 'Wild Wheat'® NyPa Forage, NyPa Reclamation and NyPa Turf have been introduced to sites in Western Australia and South Australia for evaluation together with the South Australia Department of Primary Industries, Ag WA and the University of Melbourne. Active collaboration is occurring at the International Centre for Biosaline Agriculture in Dubai UAE and in Spain. More details are provided at www.nypa.com.au
Details of the work in Dubai (UAE) is reported on pages 6 & 7 at the link below.
http://www.biosaline.org/admin/pressreleases/Vol%209%20No%202%20English.pdf
Value Chain Research
IID has long been interested in the logistics of food transport from remote locations to premium markets as a contribution to Rural Development, following with two research projects IID has been associated with directed at this end.
IID members are involved in an international development research project for QPod, a New Zealand public company for some 15 years. The Company is developing a controlled atmosphere transportation system for perishable products. The system is designed to enable perishable products to be transported from the packing shed to supermarkets anywhere in the world. The project has received backing from USDA and NZRBC. More details can be seen at www.qpod.co.nz.
IID participated in a 2003-2004 Regional Technical Assistance research project for the APEC, Transport Working Group. The Project was the Sea Land and Air Container Track and Trace Technologies: Analysis and Case Studies, IID in association with Lincoln Technologies as lead contractor was contracted to undertake a study of track and trace technologies for perishable cargoes that are employed in APEC countries. More details can be found at http://www.apec-tptwg.org.cn/new/Archives/tpt-wg24/safe/its/ITF-Track-Trace.pdf
The fund sometimes supports public lectures in subjects related to the broad subject of rural development, for example this lecture on food security, a subject that will re-emerge more frequently now that more than 50% of the worlds population lives in cities
http://adsri.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/documents/Lyndsay%20Falvey.pdf
The Fund is involved in an applied research project adapting halophyte plants patented in the United States, to different salt affected areas in Australia. Four plants, named NyPa 'Wild Wheat'® NyPa Forage, NyPa Reclamation and NyPa Turf have been introduced to sites in Western Australia and South Australia for evaluation together with the South Australia Department of Primary Industries, Ag WA and the University of Melbourne. Active collaboration is occurring at the International Centre for Biosaline Agriculture in Dubai UAE and in Spain. More details are provided at www.nypa.com.au
Details of the work in Dubai (UAE) is reported on pages 6 & 7 at the link below.
http://www.biosaline.org/admin/pressreleases/Vol%209%20No%202%20English.pdf
Value Chain Research
IID has long been interested in the logistics of food transport from remote locations to premium markets as a contribution to Rural Development, following with two research projects IID has been associated with directed at this end.
IID members are involved in an international development research project for QPod, a New Zealand public company for some 15 years. The Company is developing a controlled atmosphere transportation system for perishable products. The system is designed to enable perishable products to be transported from the packing shed to supermarkets anywhere in the world. The project has received backing from USDA and NZRBC. More details can be seen at www.qpod.co.nz.
IID participated in a 2003-2004 Regional Technical Assistance research project for the APEC, Transport Working Group. The Project was the Sea Land and Air Container Track and Trace Technologies: Analysis and Case Studies, IID in association with Lincoln Technologies as lead contractor was contracted to undertake a study of track and trace technologies for perishable cargoes that are employed in APEC countries. More details can be found at http://www.apec-tptwg.org.cn/new/Archives/tpt-wg24/safe/its/ITF-Track-Trace.pdf