School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability

Dr Jonathan Newby

Adjunct Senior Fellow
School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability
CIAT Office, NAFRI Compound. Vientiane, Lao PDR

Researcher biography

Jonathan Newby is an agricultural and rural development economist with experience working in Southeast Asia on a range agricultural development and livelihood projects.  After completing a Bachelor of Natural Resource Economics (Hons I) in 2002 he worked for the Natural Resource Economics division of the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) concentrating on economic analysis of water, vegetation, and fisheries policies. From 2006-2009 he conducted his PhD research on the economic impacts of a soil conservation and agroforestry program in the uplands of Bohol located in Central Visayas, Philippines. He is currently a post-doctoral research officer working in partnership with the National Agricultural and Forestry Research Institute (NAFRI) in Lao PDR where he contributes to a range of ACIAR projects. He also conducts research in conjunction with the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). His research interests include investigating the adoption of alternative farming practices in both upland and lowland farming systems. This research places the adoption of new technologies within a livelihood framework, where the resources of farming households are considered within the context of the institutional setting and other exogenous trends and shocks, to explore differential outcomes of technology adoption.

Publications

Journal Articles (7)
Conference Papers (9)
Thesis (1)

Journal Articles

Pachas, Anibal Nahuel Alejandro, Newby, Jonathan C., Siphommachan, Phonekham, Sakanphet, Somphanh and Dieters, Mark J. (2020). Broom grass in Lao PDR: a market chain analysis in Luang Prabang Province. Forests, Trees and Livelihoods, 29 (2), 1-18. doi: 10.1080/14728028.2020.1722259
Pachas, A. Nahuel A., Sakanphet, Somphanh, Soukkhy, Outhai, Lao, Maichor, Savathvong, Sianouvong, Newby, Jonathan C., Souliyasack, Bounkieng, Keoboualapha, Bounthanh and Dieters, Mark J. (2019). Initial spacing of teak (Tectona grandis) in northern Lao PDR: impacts on the growth of teak and companion crops. Forest Ecology and Management, 435, 77-88. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2018.12.031
Vote, Camilla, Newby, Jonathan, Phouyyavong, Khamphou, Inthavong, Thavone and Eberbach, Philip (2015). Trends and perceptions of rural household groundwater use and the implications for smallholder agriculture in rain-fed Southern Laos. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 31 (4), 558-574. doi: 10.1080/07900627.2015.1015071
Newby, Jonathan, Cramb, Rob and Sakampet, Somphanh (2014). Forest transitions and rural livelihoods: multiple pathways of smallholder teak expansion in Northern Laos. Land, 3 (2), 482-503. doi: 10.3390/land3020482
Manivong, Vongpaphane, Cramb, Rob and Newby, Jonathan (2014). Rice and remittances: crop intensification versus labour migration in Southern Laos. Human Ecology, 42 (3), 367-379. doi: 10.1007/s10745-014-9656-6
Newby, Jonathan C., Cramb, R. A., Sakanphet, Somphanh and McNamara, Sean (2012). Smallholder teak and agrarian change in Northern Laos. Small-Scale Forestry, 11 (1), 27-46. doi: 10.1007/s11842-011-9167-x
Newby, J.C. and Cramb, R.A. (2011). Economic impacts of conservation farming in a marginal environment: the case of Landcare in the Philippines. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 9 (3), 456-470. doi: 10.1080/14735903.2011.583479

Conference Papers

Irawanto, D. W., Krisdiana, R., Wisnubroto, E. I. and Newby, J. (2020). Exploring the farmer productive behavior of cassava in effort of developing value-chain linkages to improve smallholder cassava production systems in North Sumatera, Indonesia. International Conference on Innovation and Technology, Malang, Indonesia, 23-24 October 2019. Bristol, United Kingdom: Institute of Physics Publishing. doi: 10.1088/1755-1315/524/1/012018
Manivong, Vongpaphane, Newby, Jonathan and Cramb, Rob (2014). Subsistence-oriented rice farming in the rainfed lowlands of central and southern Laos—a policy dilemma. A policy dialogue on rice futures: rice-based farming systems research in the Mekong region, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 7–9 May 2014. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.
Newby, J. C, Manivong, V and Cramb, R. A. (2013). Intensification of lowland rice-based farming systems in Laos in the context of diversified rural livelihoods. 57th AARES Annual Conference, Sydney , Australia, 5th-8th February, 2013.
Manivong, Vongpaphane, Cramb, Rob and Newby, Jonathan (2012). Rice and remittances: the impact of labour migration on rice intensification in Southern Laos. 56th Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Conference (AARES), Freemantle, WA, Australia, 7-10 February 2012. Canberra, Australia: The Australian National University, Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government.
Newby, Jonathan C., Cramb, Rob A. and McNamara, S. (2010). Smallholder teak and agrarian change in Northern Laos. RCSD International Conference. Revisiting Agrarian Transformations in Southeast Asia: Empirical, Theoretical and Applied Perspectives, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 13-15 May 2010. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University.
Newby, J. C. and Cramb, R. A. (2009). Living on the margin: Assessing the economic impacts of Landcare in the Philippine uplands. Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society 53rd Annual Conference, Cairns, North Queensland, 10-13 February 2009. University of Minnesota, St Paul, USA: AgEcon Search.
Newby, J. and Pullar, D. V. (2009). Using geoprocessing tools to model the potential impact of landcare on the spatial pattern of sediment delivery. The 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Cairns, Australia, 13–17 July 2009. Auatralia: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand and International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation.
Cramb, R. A. and Newby J. (2008). Economic impacts of landcare in the Central Philippines: A preliminary report. AARES 51st annual Conference, Queenstown, New Zealand, 13-16 Feb 2007. Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
Newby, J. and Wegener, M. K. (2003). Assessing management options to reduce nutrient outputs from cane production in the Herbert River district. 25th Conference of Australian Society of Sugar Cane Technologists, Townsville, 6-9 May 2003. Brisbane, Australia: Australian Society of Sugar Cane Technologists.

Thesis

Jonathan Newby (2009). Livelihoods, Landscapes and Landcare: Assessing the Economic Impacts of a Conservation Farming Program in the Philippines Uplands. PhD Thesis, School of Integrative Systems, The University of Queensland.