Research Staff

Jeff Neilson, BA/BSc (hons), PhD
APD Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Madsen Building, Rm 437
Phone: +61 2 9351 4733
Fax: +61 2 9351 3644
Email: jneilson@geosci.usyd.edu.au

Research Interests

Jeff's research focuses on the geography of tropical agriculture and commodity trade. This interest is explored through the application of global value chain analyses to rural products grown by communities in the Global South. Jeff is currently working on two ARC-funded projects, Traceability and Developing Countries Agriculture and Indian Agriculture in the 21st Century, as well an ACIAR-funded project Improving Cocoa Production through Farmer Involvement in Field Trials. Essentially, these projects seek to understand the relationship between local institutional settings and global markets, and the implications of this relationship for poverty reduction.

In addition, Jeff possesses a broad interest in Indonesian economy and society, and has been involved in numerous research and consultancy projects in that country, including such areas as farmer empowerment, the social and environmental impacts of large-scale mining activities, customary land tenure systems, and indigenous resource management.

Publications

• Neilson, J. and Pritchard, B (Forthcoming). Value Chain Struggles: Compliance and Defiance in the Plantation Districts of South India, Blackwell, Oxford
• Fold, N., Neilson, J., and Pritchard, B. (In Press). Changing Agri-food trade relations between China and Asean. In: ASEAN industries and the Challenge from China: The Dragon & the Tiger Cubs, (Jarvis, D. and Welch, A. eds), Palgrave.
• Neilson, J. (2007). Global Markets, farmers and the state: Sustaining profits in the Indonesian cocoa sector, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 43(2), 227-50.
• Neilson, J. and Pritchard, B (2007). Big is not always better: Global Value Chain Restructuring and the crisis in South Indian tea estates, In Agri-food Commodity Chains and Globalising Networks, (Eds. Le heron, R and Stringer, C.), Ashgate, Aldershot.
• Neilson, J. and Pritchard, B. (2007). The final frontier? The global roll-out of the retail revolution in India. In Supermarkets and Agri-food Supply Chains: Transformations in the Production and Consumption of Foods (Lawrence, G. and Birch, D. eds), Routledge.
• Neilson, J. and Pritchard, B (2007). Green Coffee: The Contradictions of Global Sustainability Initiatives from the Indian Perspective, Development Policy Review, 25(3), 311-31.
• Neilson, J. (2007). Institutions, the Governance of Quality and On-Farm Value Retention for Indonesian Specialty Coffee. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 28(3), 188-204.
• Neilson, J. and Pritchard, B. (2006). Traceability, Supply Chains and Smallholders: Case-studies from India and Indonesia. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Session of the Intergovernmental Group on Tea in Nairobi, Kenya, November 29 - December 1. Document No CCP:TE 06/4, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), Rome. pdf
• Neilson, J., Pritchard, B. and Spriggs, J. (2006). Implementing quality and traceability initiatives among smallholder tea producers in Southern India. International Society of Horticultural Science (ISHS) ACTA Horticulturae 699: International Symposium on Improving the Performance of Supply Chains in Transitional Economies (Editor Batt, P): pp327-334. pdf
• Neilson, J. (2005). The Politics of Place: Geographical identities along the coffee supply chain from Toraja to Tokyo. In Cross-continental Food Chains (N. Fold & B. Pritchard eds), Routledge, London, pp193-206 pdf
• Neilson, J,. Gusli, S., Palinrungi, R. and Tenri Sau, A. W. (2005). Intergrating smallholder cocoa farmers within quality-driven supply chains: Learning from the PRIMA project. Report submitted to the PENSA office of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Makassar, Indonesia.pdf
  
• Neilson, J (2005). Industry Responses to Research and Extension in the Sulawesi Cocoa Industry. Proceedings of the Malaysian International Cocoa Conference 2005, July 18-19 2005, Kuala Lumpur, pp58-60. pdf 
• Neilson, J (2005). The Future of Java’s Historic Tea Gardens. Asian Geographic (4) 2005. Singapore, pp32-41. pdf