Nicole Yvonne Chalmer.
I have undegraduate degrees in Zoological science and Education from the University of Western Australia; Post graduate Diploma in Agribusiness from Curtin University.I have many years as a partner in a beef production business running cattle on our farm on the south coast of Western Australia. Our system depends on improved perennial/annual pastures, 625 mm rainfall, expensive fertiliser inputs and a frustrating market system where we are price takers.Therefore I am well aware of the social,cultural,economic and environmental challenges facing producers of food within the industrial paradigm. In 2012 I started a PhD in my long held area of interest/concern as a Farmer and member of Australian society- long term agroecosystem sustainabilty.I am chronologically examining causes and processes that transformed landusage and food-systems in the region from Aboriginal occupants social ecological systems;Settlers agrosystems, then modern industrial Agrosystems.My project aims to produce information that can be used to develop sustainable modern food-production systems. It is part of a collaborative project, Changing Landscapes, Changing People: Australia’s southern mallee lands 1830-2012 - a collaborative project funded by the Australian Research Council, through the School of History at University of Western Australia(Supervisor- Professor Andrea Gaynor) and History Program at La Trobe University.
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Food Studies
