Benjamin Shepherd

Experience

• 2009–present
  Researcher in the Food Security Program of the Centre for International Security Studies, University of Sydney

Education

• 2011 
  University of Sydney, PhD Candidate
• 2009 
  University of Sydney, Master of International Studies
• 1993 
  University of New South Wales, Bachelor of Industrial Design (Hons)

Publications

• 2011
  Re-defining Food Security in the light of foreign agricultural investors, Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies in Asia
• 2011
  A need for new institutions: land deals and international cooperation on food security, In Krishna-Hensel (Ed.) New Security Frontiers Critical Energy and the Resource Challenge

Grants and Contracts

• 2011
  External Food Security Strategies of GCC States: Investments in LDC Agriculture & Land

  Role:

  Researcher

  Funding Source:

  Georgetown University CIRS

• 2010
  Philippines as host of foreign agricultural investors

  Role:

  Fellow

  Funding Source:

  Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies Asia

• 2010
  Food Security in Asia Program

  Role:

  PhD Scholarship Holder

  Funding Source:

  John D & Catherine T MacArthur Foundation

Research Areas

• International Relations (160607)
• Economic Development And Growth (140202)
• Economic Development Policy (160505)
• Defence Studies (160604)
• Agriculture, Land And Farm Management Not Elsewhere Classified (070199)
• Political Science Not Elsewhere Classified (160699)

Honours

2009 University of Sydney Hedley Bull Prize for post-graduate scholarship in international politics