Rob Cramb studied agricultural science at the University of
Melbourne. He lived and worked in Sarawak, Malaysia, for six years,
first as an Australian volunteer, then as a consultant. He later
returned to Sarawak to undertake fieldwork for a PhD in development
economics and Southeast Asian studies through Monash
University.
In 1987 he joined the University of Queensland as Lecturer in
Agricultural Development, teaching agricultural economics to
Australian and international students and working on collaborative
research projects throughout Southeast Asia. He retired as
Professor of Agricultural Development in the School of Agriculture
and Food Sciences in 2019. In 2020 he was made a Distinguished
Fellow of the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics
Society.
He has written Land and Longhouse: Agrarian Change in the Uplands
of Sarawak (NIAS Press, 2007) and edited The Oil Palm Complex:
Smallholders, Agribusiness and the State in Indonesia and Malaysia
(NUS Press, 2016) and White Gold: The Commercialisation of Rice
Farming in the Lower Mekong Basin (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).
In retirement, he is turning his hand to writing fiction,
children's stories, and an account of his grandfather's experience
of WW1.
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