Seafood Services Australia Ltd: Adding Value Throughout The Seafood Supply Chain
Funder
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
Funding Amount
$3,860,000.00
Summary
The 1993 Fishing Industry National Study (FINS) clearly identified that more cohesive and efficient delivery of the types services now provided under SSA’s umbrella was required to address important areas of market failure in the seafood industry and to help the industry identify and captilise on significant opportunities for industry development through post harvest value adding.
SSA’s products, services, and its comprehensive standards development process, are recognised nationally, ....The 1993 Fishing Industry National Study (FINS) clearly identified that more cohesive and efficient delivery of the types services now provided under SSA’s umbrella was required to address important areas of market failure in the seafood industry and to help the industry identify and captilise on significant opportunities for industry development through post harvest value adding.
SSA’s products, services, and its comprehensive standards development process, are recognised nationally, by industry and governments, as having contributed significantly to the development of the Australian seafood industry, especially through keeping the industry abreast of legislative and technological change. SSA’s work is also being recognised internationally and used as a model for other primary industry sectors. See Appendix C – SSA Annual Operating Plan, December 2001 to June 2002. Recent evaluations have identified opportunities to further improve SSA’s delivery of products and services to all sectors of the industry.
Incorporation of SSA Ltd establishes a rigorous, transparent and accountable management regime with significant industry ownership that will further focus the SSA’s activities through corporate leadership, strategic vision and closer links with the industry on a national basis. Formal corporate directorship processes will also ensure SSA’s operates strategically within the broad industry development program outlined in the Investing for tomorrow’s fish: the FRDC’s research and development plan, 2000 to 2005.
The SSA Network brings together industry and government members from each State and Territory, and the Commonwealth to seek solutions to a wide range of seafood supply chain issues, including issues of market failure, from seafood safety through to environmental management systems. Experience over the past three years has demonstrated the pivotal role the Network plays in achieving SSA's outcomes so successfully. This project will strengthen the Network so that it can continue to have input into priorities and work programs, thereby ensuring SSA Ltd activities are responsive, cohesive, and appropriately targeted.
SSA Ltd provides a flexible and responsive mechanism that will for the first time, enable the seafood industry to attract private and public funding for seafood industry development from non-traditional funding sources. It will do this by encouraging and supporting people, businesses and organisations in the seafood industry who want to: 1. continually improve and add value to their businesses, 2. continually improve their environmental performance, 3. meet consumer expectations (especially in having high levels of confidence in Australian seafood products), and 4. receive broad community support for their activities.
SSA Ltd will is uniquely poised to foster unprecedented and sustainable seafood industry development, generating significant social and economic benefits to Australia. Objectives: 1. To underpin the further development of Seafood Services Australia Limited as a vital, national resource focused on industry development throughout the entire seafood supply chain 2. To enable SSA Ltd to build on the achievements of its predecessors and, in particular, to: a. inspire more strategic, integrated and forward-looking outlooks and actions among key players in the fishing industry and those who support the industry; b. encourage a “whole-of-supply-chain” approach to fisheries R&D planning and investment; c. encourage awareness and adoption of environmental management, quality management and food safety systems and associated certification; d. optimise national investment in fisheries R&D through influencing the way in which other R&D funding entities apply their industry development investments;e. deliver cost-effective, appropriate and timely knowledge, processes and technologies to enhance the industry’s profitability, international competitiveness and social resilience;f. develop and enhance effective networks within the seafood industry and between the seafood industry, researchers and government agencies involved in seafood industry development, both within Australia and overseas (See Section 5 of the Business Plan);g. facilitate the dissemination, adoption and commercialisation of research results and other material for the benefit of the seafood industry;h. provide commercially sound advice and investment relating to industry development R&D; 3. Position the seafood industry to meet future challenges by working with industry to develop and implement world’s best practice standards throughout the entire seafood supply chain. 4. Establish and maintain rigorous and accountable corporate governance procedures within SSA Ltd. 5. Establish a flexible and responsive mechanism that enables the seafood industry to attract private and public funding for seafood industry development from non-traditional funding sources. Read moreRead less
Welfare reform and welfare stigma : scroungers, slackers and bludgers? This project aims to build an evidence base of the prevalence, causes and consequences of welfare stigma in Australia. Welfare policies and proposed reforms aim to reduce welfare expenditure, increase workforce participation, and promote personal and family wellbeing. However, stigmatising attitudes and discrimination towards those receiving welfare benefits may undermine these policy goals: reducing employment opportunities ....Welfare reform and welfare stigma : scroungers, slackers and bludgers? This project aims to build an evidence base of the prevalence, causes and consequences of welfare stigma in Australia. Welfare policies and proposed reforms aim to reduce welfare expenditure, increase workforce participation, and promote personal and family wellbeing. However, stigmatising attitudes and discrimination towards those receiving welfare benefits may undermine these policy goals: reducing employment opportunities and causing poorer health and wellbeing. Through innovative experimental studies, the project plans to identify ways in which welfare policy can minimise stigma and promote employment. Project outcomes may provide an evidence base for the design of more effective welfare policy.Read moreRead less
Establishment Of A Coordination Program For Social Sciences In The Fishing Industry
Funder
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
Funding Amount
$38,000.00
Summary
To address the action arising from Board 99 to establish a social research co-ordination program. Objectives: 1. To resource Kal Analysis to develop the social sciences coordination program
Social Sciences Research Coordination Program - Advisory And Technical Group Expenses
Funder
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
Funding Amount
$13,031.07
Summary
The need for the program 2008/041 Fisheries Social Sciences Research Coordination Program is to coordinate the percieved social issues in the fishery industry and align these with the research plan for project funding. The need for this 'sub project' is to efficiently manage the governance expenditure associate with managing the program. Objectives: 1. Provide governance support for the establishment and maintenance of a social research coordination program to facilitate the leve ....The need for the program 2008/041 Fisheries Social Sciences Research Coordination Program is to coordinate the percieved social issues in the fishery industry and align these with the research plan for project funding. The need for this 'sub project' is to efficiently manage the governance expenditure associate with managing the program. Objectives: 1. Provide governance support for the establishment and maintenance of a social research coordination program to facilitate the leverage of effort between projects; assess the synergy of project proposals and optimise beneficial resource allocation and opportunities for all fishery activities. Read moreRead less
Social And Economic Evaluation Of The Victorian Wild-catch Seafood And Aquaculture Industry – STAGE 1
Funder
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
Funding Amount
$6,200.00
Summary
The need to evaluate the economic and social contribution of the Victorian Seafood Industry to Victorian communities has been identified by the VicRAC (formally VicFRAB) as an urgent and high priority. Currently no such data exist, but the need is clear. Firstly, an evaluation is required to inform the Victorian Government of the likely impacts of resource management decisions on coastal communities. Second, an evaluation is necessary to provide information to the Victorian public about the ben ....The need to evaluate the economic and social contribution of the Victorian Seafood Industry to Victorian communities has been identified by the VicRAC (formally VicFRAB) as an urgent and high priority. Currently no such data exist, but the need is clear. Firstly, an evaluation is required to inform the Victorian Government of the likely impacts of resource management decisions on coastal communities. Second, an evaluation is necessary to provide information to the Victorian public about the benefits that flow from the professional fishing sector, beyond a total annual value calculated from beach prices.
FRDC also have identified a strong need for a coordinated approach to evaluate the Industry across the States and Territories, so that a national picture of the value of Australian Seafood Industry can be determined.
Recent FRDC-funded research in NSW, led by A/Prof Kate Barclay, to evaluate the social and economic value of coastal professional wild-catch fisheries, has provided a strong basis for developing this national framework, and the methods suitable for addressing the specific needs of the Victorian Industry.
We propose the Victorian social/economic evaluation study consist of a two-stage approach, in order to ensure the most appropriate methods are used, the outputs are relevant, and that the evaluation achieves a high level of industry support and participation.
Stage 1 consists of developing a fully-costed methodology for a Victorian evaluation which also could be scaled up for a national evaluation. This stage would also develop collaborative partnership with, and support from, the Victorian Industry sectors.
Stage 2 would consist of the Evaluation Study itself – data collection, analysis and dissemination – based on the outputs of Stage 1.
Stage 1 would run in January 2017 – March 2017. Stage 2 EOI would be submitted to VicRAC for consideration in March 2017.
This application seeks support for Stage 1.
Objectives: 1. To develop a proposed set of work packages to evaluate the social and economic contribution of the Victorian seafood industry 2. To prioritise work packages in terms of cost, available data, feasibility, time, and what would be lost if not included in a Victorian evaluation of the seafood industry 3. To collaborate with the seafood industry to develop priorities and good engagement for a Victorian evaluation of the seafood industry 4. To collaborate with national stakeholders to ensure a Victorian study will be appropriate for scaling up to a national evaluation of the seafood industry 5. To use the workshops to develop a proposal for Stage 2, the social and economic evaluation itself Read moreRead less
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Violence, Religion and Well-being in Contemporary Burma (Myanmar): A Medical Anthropological Study of Everyday Life Under Dictatorship. For 40 years, Burma has been controlled by a military dictatorship with human rights abuses occurring daily. Terror and political violence are used as tools of repression. An in-depth ethnographic study will be conducted into the relationship between emotional/psychological distress and the violence and fear that pervades everyday Burmese life. The project will ....Violence, Religion and Well-being in Contemporary Burma (Myanmar): A Medical Anthropological Study of Everyday Life Under Dictatorship. For 40 years, Burma has been controlled by a military dictatorship with human rights abuses occurring daily. Terror and political violence are used as tools of repression. An in-depth ethnographic study will be conducted into the relationship between emotional/psychological distress and the violence and fear that pervades everyday Burmese life. The project will test the hypothesis that religion plays an important role in mediating responses to fear. No other study has been conducted of everday life under this dictatorship, or of survival strategies created to alleviate fear. Outcomes will include refereed articles, a major monograph on the subject and the development of a new methodology appropriate for aiding victims of terror and torture.Read moreRead less