Primary Supervisors:
Dr Shabbir Ahmad | s.ahmad@uq.edu.au
Prof Damian Hine | d.hine@uq.edu.au
Please contact Dr Shabbir Ahmad (s.ahmad@uq.edu.au) and Prof Damian Hine (d.hine@uq.edu.au) before submitting an application.
Duration: 30 hours per week; on site
Location: UQ St Lucia Campus
This project aims at examining the performance of Australian beef production systems when methane emissions are factored into traditional productivity analysis. The main objective is to find systems that are highly productive per unit of emissions, to inform the development of net-zero livestock policies. Specifically, the project investigates whether there are trade-offs between productivity and emissions reduction within the current production structure.
Expected outcomes: The scholar is expected to learn skills:
i) developing productivity measures for Australian beef systems,
ii) integrating methane emissions into productivity analysis,
iii) computing methane-adjusted productivity frontiers,
iv) finding systems near net-zero compatible best practice, and
v) measuring potential productivity and emissions improvement from efficiency gaps.
Suitability: The project is aimed for students who havie basic economic background and want to build eoconomic analysis capabilities using scitific data.
