Dr Adam Komarek
Senior Lecturer in Agribusiness
School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability
+61 7 54601 314
Researcher biography
Adam's research focuses on (1) the economic and human aspects of sustainable agriculture at the field and farm scale, especially for issues of risk, resilience, and rural livelihoods, (2) foresight analysis within agrifood systems, and (3) agrifood supply chain design and performance. He teaches agribusiness courses and advises PhD and MPhil students.
Publications
Book Chapters
Ruhon, Radhiyah, Waldron, Scott, Langford, Zannie, Komarek, Adam, Zhang, Jing and Cahyadi, Eko (2023). The South Sulawesi seaweed industry. Globalisation and livelihood transformations in the Indonesian seaweed industry. (pp. TBC-TBC) edited by Zannie Langford. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003183860
Koo, Jawoo, Nkonya, Ephraim, Azzarri, Carlo, Cox, Cindy, Johnson, Timothy, Komarek, Adam M., Kwon, Ho-Young, De Pinto, Alex, Roberts, Cleo and Zhang, Wei (2016). Land and soil management: promoting healthy soils for healthier agricultural systems. 2016 Global Food Policy Report. (pp. 41-47) edited by International Food Policy Research Institute. Washington, DC, United States: International Food Policy Research Institute. doi: 10.2499/9780896295827
Waldron, Scott A., Brown, Colin G. and Komarek, Adam M. (2014). Growth, globalization and upgrading of the Chinese cashmere industry. The Political Economy of Agro-Food Markets in China: The Social Construction of the Markets in an Era of Globalization. (pp. 257-278) edited by Louis Augustin-Jean and Björn Alpermann. Basingstoke, Hampshire, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9781137277954_11
Journal Articles
El Ansari, Loubna, Chenoune, Roza, Yigezu, Yigezu A., Komarek, Adam M., Gary, Christian and Belhouchette, Hatem (2023). Intensification options in cereal-legume production systems generate trade-offs between sustainability pillars for farm households in northern Morocco. Agricultural Systems, 212 103769, 103769. doi: 10.1016/j.agsy.2023.103769
Komarek, Adam M. (2023). Progress towards healthy diets remains slow. Nature Food, 4 (11), 1-2. doi: 10.1038/s43016-023-00862-2
Adhikari, Lipy, Komarek, Adam M., de Voil, Peter and Rodriguez, Daniel (2023). A framework for the assessment of farm diversification options in broadacre agriculture. Agricultural Systems, 210 103724, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.agsy.2023.103724
Zhang, Jing, Waldron, Scott, Langford, Zannie, Julianto, Boedi and Komarek, Adam Martin (2023). China’s growing influence in the global carrageenan industry and implications for Indonesia. Journal of Applied Phycology. doi: 10.1007/s10811-023-03004-0
Komarek, Adam M., Robinson, Sherman and Mason-D’Croz, Daniel (2022). The cost of diversity in livestock feed rations. PLoS One, 17 (11) e0277817, 1-15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0277817
Hawkins, James W., Komarek, Adam M., Kihoro, Esther M., Nicholson, Charles F., Omore, Amos O., Yesuf, Gabriel U., Ericksen, Polly J., Schoneveld, George C. and Rufino, Mariana C. (2022). High-yield dairy cattle breeds improve farmer incomes, curtail greenhouse gas emissions and reduce dairy import dependency in Tanzania. Nature Food, 3 (11), 957-967. doi: 10.1038/s43016-022-00633-5
Musumba, Mark, Palm, Cheryl A., Komarek, Adam M., Mutuo, Patrick K. and Kaya, Bocary (2022). Household livelihood diversification in rural Africa. Agricultural Economics, 53 (2), 246-256. doi: 10.1111/agec.12694
Komarek, Adam M., Abdul Rahman, Nurudeen, Bandyopadhyay, Arkadeep, Kizito, Fred, Koo, Jawoo and Addah, Weseh (2021). Trade-offs and synergies associated with maize leaf stripping within crop-livestock systems in northern Ghana. Agricultural Systems, 193 103206, 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.agsy.2021.103206
Zhang, Xin, Yao, Guolin, Vishwakarma, Srishti, Dalin, Carole, Komarek, Adam M., Kanter, David R., Davis, Kyle Frankel, Pfeifer, Kimberly, Zhao, Jing, Zou, Tan, D'Odorico, Paolo, Folberth, Christian, Rodriguez, Fernando Galeana, Fanzo, Jessica, Rosa, Lorenzo, Dennison, William, Musumba, Mark, Heyman, Amy and Davidson, Eric A. (2021). Quantitative assessment of agricultural sustainability reveals divergent priorities among nations. One Earth, 4 (9), 1262-1277. doi: 10.1016/j.oneear.2021.08.015
Komarek, Adam M., Dunston, Shahnila, Enahoro, Dolapo, Godfray, H. Charles J., Herrero, Mario, Mason-D'Croz, Daniel, Rich, Karl M., Scarborough, Peter, Springmann, Marco, Sulser, Timothy B., Wiebe, Keith and Willenbockel, Dirk (2021). Income, consumer preferences, and the future of livestock-derived food demand. Global Environmental Change, 70 102343, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102343
Komarek, Adam M., Thierfelder, Christian and Steward, Peter R. (2021). Conservation agriculture improves adaptive capacity of cropping systems to climate stress in Malawi. Agricultural Systems, 190 103117, 103117. doi: 10.1016/j.agsy.2021.103117
Pervez Bharucha, Zareen, Attwood, Simon, Badiger, Shrinivas, Balamatti, Arun, Bawden, Richard, Bentley, Jeffery W., Chander, Mahesh, Davies, Leonora, Dixon, Harry, Dixon, John, D’Souza, Marcella, Butler Flora, Cornelia, Green, Michael, Joshi, Deepa, Komarek, Adam M., Ruth McDermid, Lesley, Mathijs, Erik, Rola, Agnes C., Patnaik, Sasmita, Pattanayak, Sandip, Pingali, Prabhu, Vara Prasad, V. P., Rabbinge, Rudy, Ramanjaneyulu, G. V., Ravindranath, N. H., Sage, Colin, Saha, Amrita, Salvatore, Ceccarelli, Patnaik Saxena, Lopamudra ... Pretty, Jules (2020). The Top 100 questions for the sustainable intensification of agriculture in India’s rainfed drylands. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 19 (2), 1-22. doi: 10.1080/14735903.2020.1830530
Kruseman, Gideon, Bairagi, Subir, Komarek, Adam M., Molero Milan, Anabel, Swamikannu, Nedumaran, Petsakos, Athanasios, Prager, Steven and Yigezu, Yigezu A. (2020). CGIAR modeling approaches for resource-constrained scenarios: II. Models for analyzing socioeconomic factors to improve policy recommendations. Crop Science, 60 (2), 568-581. doi: 10.1002/csc2.20114
Komarek, Adam M., De Pinto, Alessandro and Smith, Vincent H. (2020). A review of types of risks in agriculture: What we know and what we need to know. Agricultural Systems, 178 102738, 102738. doi: 10.1016/j.agsy.2019.102738
Komarek, Adam M., Thurlow, James, Koo, Jawoo and De Pinto, Alessandro (2019). Economywide effects of climate-smart agriculture in Ethiopia. Agricultural Economics, 50 (6), 765-778. doi: 10.1111/agec.12523
Komarek, Adam M. and Msangi, Siwa (2019). Effect of changes in population density and crop productivity on farm households in Malawi. Agricultural Economics, 50 (5), 615-628. doi: 10.1111/agec.12513
Ditzler, Lenora, Komarek, Adam M., Chiang, Tsai-Wei, Alvarez, Stephanie, Chatterjee, Shantonu Abe, Timler, Carl, Raneri, Jessica E., Carmona, Natalia Estrada, Kennedy, Gina and Groot, Jeroen C. J. (2019). A model to examine farm household trade-offs and synergies with an application to smallholders in Vietnam. Agricultural Systems, 173, 49-63. doi: 10.1016/j.agsy.2019.02.008
Komarek, Adam M., Kwon, Hoyoung, Haile, Beliyou, Thierfelder, Christian, Mutenje, Munyaradzi J. and Azzarri, Carlo (2019). From plot to scale: ex-ante assessment of conservation agriculture in Zambia. Agricultural Systems, 173, 504-518. doi: 10.1016/j.agsy.2019.04.001
Komarek, Adam M., Koo, Jawoo, Wood-Sichra, Ulrike and You, Liangzhi (2018). Spatially-explicit effects of seed and fertilizer intensification for maize in Tanzania. Land Use Policy, 78, 158-165. doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.06.033
Komarek, Adam M. (2018). Conservation agriculture in western China increases productivity and profits without decreasing resilience. Food Security, 10 (5), 1251-1262. doi: 10.1007/s12571-018-0833-0
Komarek, Adam M., Koo, Jawoo, Haile, Beliyou, Msangi, Siwa and Azzarri, Carlo (2018). Trade-offs and synergies between yield, labor, profit, and risk in Malawian maize-based cropping systems. Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 38 (3) 32, 32. doi: 10.1007/s13593-018-0506-6
Chenoune, Roza, Allen, Thomas, Komarek, Adam M., Gomez y Paloma, Sergio, Flichman, Guillermo, Capillon, Alain and Belhouchette, Hatem (2017). Assessing consumption-production-resources nexus decisions for rice-focused agricultural households in Sierra Leone. Land Use Policy, 67, 597-607. doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.06.014
Komarek, Adam M., Drogue, Sophie, Chenoune, Roza, Hawkins, James, Msangi, Siwa, Belhouchette, Hatem and Flichman, Guillermo (2017). Agricultural household effects of fertilizer price changes for smallholder farmers in central Malawi. Agricultural Systems, 154, 168-178. doi: 10.1016/j.agsy.2017.03.016
Philp, Joshua, Komarek, Adam M., Pain, Sarah J. and Bellotti, William (2017). Variation in feed utilisation by sheep undergoing compensatory growth following underfeeding with and without additional dietary nitrogen in western China. Animal Production Science, 57 (1), 96-101. doi: 10.1071/an15185
Komarek, Adam M., Spoor, Max, Feng, Shuyi and Shi, Xiaoping (2017). Income implications of political capital and agricultural land use in western China. China Agricultural Economic Review, 9 (1), 93-110. doi: 10.1108/caer-03-2015-0030
Li, Lihua, Varua, Maria Estela, Komarek, Adam M., Shankar, Sriram and Bellotti, William D. (2017). The interplay of production commercialisation and specialization: an empirical study on Chinese smallholders. China Agricultural Economic Review, 9 (4), 504-521. doi: 10.1108/caer-08-2016-0122
Li, Lihua, Bellotti, Bill and Komarek, Adam M. (2016). Structural change and agricultural diversification since China's reforms. Bio-Based and Applied Economics, 5 (2), 113-130. doi: 10.13128/BAE-16366
Philp, Joshua, Komarek, Adam M., Pain, Sarah J., Li, Xueling and Bellotti, William (2016). Improving the use of available feed resources to overcome sheep feeding deficits in western China. Animal Production Science, 56 (9), 1545-1550. doi: 10.1071/an14694
Komarek, Adam M., Li, LingLing and Bellotti, William D. (2015). Whole-farm economic and risk effects of conservation agriculture in a crop-livestock system in western China. Agricultural Systems, 137, 220-226. doi: 10.1016/j.agsy.2014.10.013
Robertson, M., Shen, Y., Philp, J., Hou, F., Yang, D., Yang, Z., Ying, K., Chen, X., Bell, L., Whish, J., Komarek, A. M. and Bellotti, B. (2015). Optimal harvest timing vs. harvesting for animal forage supply: Impacts on production and quality of lucerne on the Loess Plateau, China. Grass and Forage Science, 70 (2), 296-307. doi: 10.1111/gfs.12116
Komarek, Adam M., Bell, Lindsay W., Whish, Jeremy P. M., Robertson, Michael J. and Bellotti, William D. (2015). Whole-farm economic, risk and resource-use trade-offs associated with integrating forages into crop-livestock systems in western China. Agricultural Systems, 133, 63-72. doi: 10.1016/j.agsy.2014.10.008
Komarek, Adam M., Shi, Xiaoping and Heerink, Nico (2014). Household-level effects of China's Sloping Land Conversion Program under price and policy shifts. Land Use Policy, 40, 36-44. doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2013.04.013
Waldron, Scott, Brown, Colin and Komarek, Adam M. (2014). The Chinese cashmere industry: a global value chain analysis. Development Policy Review, 32 (5), 589-610. doi: 10.1111/dpr.12074
Komarek, Adam M. and MacAulay, T. Gordon (2013). Farmer responses to changing risk aversion, enterprise variability and resource endowments. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 57 (3), 379-398. doi: 10.1111/1467-8489.12010
Komarek, Adam M., McDonald, Cam K., Bell, Lindsay W., Whish, Jeremy P. M., Robertson, Michael J., MacLeod, Neil D. and Bellotti, William D. (2012). Whole-farm effects of livestock intensification in smallholder systems in Gansu, China. Agricultural Systems, 109, 16-24. doi: 10.1016/j.agsy.2012.02.001
Komarek, Adam M., Waldron, Scott A. and Brown, Colin G. (2012). An exploration of livestock-development policies in western China. Food Policy, 37 (1), 12-20. doi: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2011.10.001
Komarek, Adam M. and Ahmadi-Esfahani, Fredoun Z. (2012). The impact of changing marketing conditions on Ugandan banana farmers. Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies, 2 (1), 74-88. doi: 10.1108/20440831211219246
Komarek, Adam M. and Ahmadi-Esfahani, Fredoun Z. (2011). Impacts of price and productivity changes on banana-growing households in Uganda. Agricultural Economics, 42 (SUPPL. 1), 141-151. doi: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2011.00558.x
Komarek, Adam M. (2010). Crop diversification decisions: The case of vanilla in Uganda. Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture, 49 (3), 227-242. doi: 10.22004/ag.econ.155551
Komarek, Adam (2010). The determinants of banana market commercialisation in Western Uganda. African Journal of Agricultural Research, 5 (9), 775-784. doi: 10.5897/AJAR09.022
Conference Papers
Yao, Guolin, Zhang, Xin, Vishwakarma, Srishti, Dalin, Carole, Komarek, Adam, Kanter, David R., Davis, Kyle Frankel, Pfeifer, Kimberly, Zhao, Jing, Zou, Tan, D' Odorico, Paolo, Folberth, Christian, Galeana, Fernando, Fanzo, Jessica, Rosa, Lorenzo, Dennison, William and Davidson, Eric A. (2020). Measuring national socio-economic aspects of sustainable agriculture and the interactions with environmental indicators. Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) 2020 Annual Meeting, Kansas City, MO, United States, 26-28 July 2020. doi: 10.22004/ag.econ.304643
Komarek, A.M., Dunston, S., Sulser, T., Cenacchi, N., Willenbockel, D. and Wiebe, K (2019). Demand for animal-source foods: past trends and future drivers. Livestock, Environment and People (LEAP) Conference, Oxford, United Kingdom, 10 December 2019.
Komarek, A., Thurlow, J., De Pinto, A., Kwon, H.-Y. and Koo, J. (2018). Economy-wide effects of climate-smart agriculture in Ethiopia. International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE) 2018 Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 28 July-2 August 2018. doi: 10.22004/ag.econ.277095
Komarek, Adam, Haile, Beliyou and Azzarri, Carlo (2018). Productivity and economic effects of conservation agriculture: Evidence from Zambia. 2018 International Consortium on Applied Bioeconomy Research Conference (ICABR), Washington, DC United States, 12-15 June 2018.
Komarek, Adam M. (2013). Costs and benefits of crop residue retention in a Chinese subsistence farming system. Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES) 57th Conference, Sydney, Australia, 5-8 February 2013. The Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. doi: 10.22004/ag.econ.152197
Komarek, Adam M. and MacAulay, T. Gordon (2011). Using alterative whole-farm modelling approaches to assess farm enterprise selection, risk and welfare. Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES) 55th Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 8-11 February 2011. doi: 10.22004/ag.econ.100574
Komarek, A., Brown, C. and Waldron, S. (2011). A heterogeneous-agent model with district-level constraints: an application to livestock development in Gansu, China. 10th European Conference on Agriculture and Rural Development in China (ECARDC), Aarhus, Denmark, 8-10 April 2011.
Komarek, A. M., Waldron, S. A. and Brown, C. G. (2011). Livestock expansion as a development pathway: A heterogeneous-agent model for smallholders in Gansu, China. 55th Annual Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 7-10 February 2011. doi: 10.22004/ag.econ.100573
Waldron, S. A., Brown, C. G. and Komarek, A. M. (2011). The Sinofication of Global Value Chains, Rural Development and Cashmere. 10th European Conference on Agriculture and Rural Development in China, Aarhus, Denmark, 8-10 April 2011.
Komarek, Adam M. and Ahmadi-Esfahani, Fredoun Z. (2006). An economic analysis of Ugandan agricultural constraints. Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES) 50th Conference, Sydney, Australia, 8-10 February 2006. doi: 10.22004/ag.econ.139796
Working Paper
Beye, Assane and Komarek, Adam M. (2020). Quantification and benefits of reducing post-harvest losses: evidence for vegetables in Senegal. 300. ZEF-Discussion Papers on Development Policy No. 300. doi: 10.22004/ag.econ.305681
Research Reports
Komarek, Adam M., Cahyadi, Eko Ruddy, Zhang, Jing, Fariyanti, Anna, Julianto, Boedi, Arsyi, Risya, Lapong, Imran, Langford, Alexandra, Waldron, Scott A. and Grist, Madeline (2023). Increasing incomes in carrageenan seaweed value chains in Takalar, South Sulawesi. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: The Australia-Indonesia Centre.
Zhang, Xin, Komarek, Adam M., Lee, Alicia, Jackson, Kevin, Zhang, Wei and Arachchige, Pavithra Pitumpe (2022). An assessment framework for identifying opportunities in advancing biodiversity-enhancing agricultural practices. Zurich, Switzerland and Washington, DC USA: ETH-Zurich and IFPRI.
Robinson, Sherman, Anderson, Lillian, Dunston, Shahnila, Gabriel, Sherwin, Komarek, Adam M., Mason-D’Croz, Daniel and Sulser, Timothy B. (2021). International model for policy analysis of agricultural commodities and trade-standard IFPRI multimarket model (IMPACT-SIMM): Technical description for version 1. Washington, DC, United States: International Food Policy Research Institute. doi: 10.2499/p15738coll2.134930
Data Collections
Adam M. Komarek, Sherman Robinson and Daniel Mason-D'Croz (2022). Data and relevant materials used for the study "The cost of diversity in livestock feed rations".. Mendeley Data. (Dataset) doi: 10.17632/v3k5xhtnn2.1
Adam M. Komarek (2021). Replication Data for the study on trade-offs and synergies associated with maize leaf stripping within crop-livestock systems in Northern Ghana.. IFPRI Dataverse. (Dataset) doi: 10.7910/DVN/NMFEFS
Adam M. Komarek (2021). Replication data for the study on income, consumer preferences, and the future of livestock-derived food demand. Dataverse. (Dataset) doi: 10.7910/DVN/ZPWQBB
Adam M. Komarek (2019). Data and code used for the study on economywide effects of climate-smart agriculture in Ethiopia.. Mendeley Data. (Dataset) doi: 10.17632/ymfk792r6n.1
Adam M. Komarek, Christian Thierfelder, Munyaradzi Mutenje, Carlo Azzarri, Ho-Young Kwon and Beliyou Haile (2019). Data for: From plot to scale: ex-ante assessment of conservation agriculture in Zambia. Mendeley Data. (Dataset) doi: 10.17632/kbj5z8dvjv.1
Adam M. Komarek (2019). Data and code for the study on effect of changes in population density and crop productivity on farm households in Malawi.. Mendeley Data. (Dataset) doi: 10.17632/vbkscdgdbd.1
Adam M. Komarek (2019). Data and code for the study of a review of types of risks in agriculture: what we know and what we need to know.. Mendeley Data. (Dataset) doi: 10.17632/ppy2x4yy7k.1
Adam Komarek (2018). Replication data for the article "Spatially-explicit effects of seed and fertilizer intensification for maize in Tanzania" published in the journal Land Use Policy, 2018.. Mendeley Data. (Dataset) doi: 10.17632/kkvz38dvzf.1
Adam M. Komarek (2018). Replication Data for the study on trade-Offs and synergies between yield, labor, profit, and risk in Malawian maize-based cropping systems.. Dataverse. (Dataset) doi: 10.7910/DVN/ILVSXJ
Preprints
Kruseman, Gideon , Dermawan, Ahmad , Diagne, Mandiaye , Enahoro, Dolapo , Frija, Aymen , Gatto, Marcel , Gbegbelegbe, Sika , Komarek, Adam M. , Mausch, Kai , Mottaleb, Khondoker , Nedumaran, Swamikannu , Tesfaye, Kindie and Valera, Harold Glenn (2021). Foresight for income and employment: what can we learn for agricultural research for development.