Dr Adam Komarek
Senior Lecturer in Agribusiness
School of Agriculture and Food Sciences
+61 7 54601 107
Researcher biography
Adam Komarek has been a Senior Lecturer in the School of Agriculture and Food Sciences at the University of Queensland since 2021. From 2014 to 2020 he worked as a Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute based in Washington DC, and as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Western Sydney University between 2009 and 2014. Adam studied at the University of Sydney, completing a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (2004) and a PhD in Agricultural Economics (2008). Adam has practical work experience in agriculture, including one year on a cattle station on the Barkly Tableland and working with mixed crop-livestock farmers in Africa, Asia, and Australia. He studies the economics of sustainable agriculture, risk and resilience, rural livelihoods, interactions between the environment and agricultural systems, including livestock, and food supply chains. Adam applies mathematical programming models, especially whole-farm bioeconomic models, and statistical methods, such as linear mixed-effects models.
Courses taught at the University of Queensland each year since 2021:
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Agribusiness Investment Project Appraisal (FINM3960 and FINM7960) in semester 1
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Sustainable Food Supply Chains (MGTS3968) in semester 1
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Food & Fibre Case Studies II (AGRC2000) in semester 2
Book Chapter
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
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
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
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
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., 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.