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Welcome to RDSM Consulting. The company provides high quality professional services related to agriculture and rural community development in Asia and the Pacific. RDSM is committed to going the extra mile to meet client requirements.
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Latest News 2020/21:

The coming year provides exciting opportunities to work with some of the regions most influential agricultural organisations.  David Swete Kelly continues engagement with MFAT through its Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MERL) Panel.  Recent engagements such as:
  1. The final review of New Zealand's Coffee and Cocoa:
    Agribusiness Opportunities     (CACAO) program.  MFAT collaborates with Timor-Leste's Cooperativa Café Timor (CCT) and the US-based National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA) to deliver this very successful support to 19,000 poor rural households.
  2. The appraisal of New Zealand's newly designed support to export crop diversification in Timor Leste.
​RDSM Consulting also continues its long association with Australia's aid program which includes:
  1. Ongoing support to Australia's rural development initiatives in Afghanistan.  Currently the focus is on the final year of the Australia Afghanistan Community Resilience Program (AACRS), as well as its support to MAIL's implementation of its Dry and Farming Policy.
  2. Similar support is also provided in Pakistan where the focus is on Australia's collaboration with the FAO in Balochistan, as well as market development, and water issues.  Yet, Australia has made the decision to withdraw its aid assistance to Pakistan by June 2020.  This will end RDSM's decade of support to Australia's engagements in the country.
  3. Supporting the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) to develop its Pacific Capacity Building Strategy - a cross agency initiative aimed at improving agricultural research networks across Oceania.  Subsequent work in 2020 will further support the ragricultural post-graduate scholarship program. 
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
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Improved and sustained productivity of Afghan farming systems in water scarce environments through adaptive research.

Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)
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October 2018
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Coffee and Cocoa:
Agribusiness Opportunities (CACAO)
Mid-Term Review 2018

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (New Zealand)

October 2018
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Evaluation of New Zealand’s Country Programme in Timor-Leste

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (New Zealand)

October 2017