Zannie Langford is a social scientist and economist with an interest in land, food and rural livelihoods in Indonesia, Northern Australia, and the Pacific. She is a Research Fellow in rural development at the University of Queensland, researching changing dynamics of rural agriculture in Indonesia with the Partnership for Australia-Indonesia Research. Her PhD research explored the role of private finance in agricultural development in remote Northern Australia, exploring how farmers, Indigenous organisations, government and private-sector intermediaries negotiate financial investments for agricultural development. She has previously worked on both applied and academic projects exploring land, livelihoods and rural development in Vanuatu and Indonesia, as well as in chemical engineering.
Journal Article: A ‘Rule of Thumb’ and the return on investment: the role of valuation devices in the financialization of Northern Australian pastoral land
Langford, Alexandra (2022). A ‘Rule of Thumb’ and the return on investment: the role of valuation devices in the financialization of Northern Australian pastoral land. Valuation Studies, 8 (2), 37-60. doi: 10.3384/vs.2001-5992.2021.8.2.37-60
Book Chapter: 'I want to sleep at night as well': guilt and care in the making of agricultural credit markets
Langford, Alexandra, Brekelmans, Alana and Lawrence, Geoffrey (2021). 'I want to sleep at night as well': guilt and care in the making of agricultural credit markets. Markets in their place: context, culture, finance. (pp. 122-140) edited by Russell Prince, Matthew Henry, Carolyn Morris, Aisling Gallagher and Stephen FitzHerbert. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429296260-7
Journal Article: Financialization for development? Asset making on Indigenous land in remote northern Australia
Langford, Alexandra, Lawrence, Geoffrey and Smith, Kiah (2021). Financialization for development? Asset making on Indigenous land in remote northern Australia. Development and Change, 52 (3), 574-597. doi: 10.1111/dech.12648
Journal Article: Financialising governance? State actor engagement with private finance for rural development in the Northern Territory of Australia
Langford, Alexandra, Smith, Kiah and Lawrence, Geoffrey (2020). Financialising governance? State actor engagement with private finance for rural development in the Northern Territory of Australia. Research in Globalization, 2 100026, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.resglo.2020.100026
Other Outputs: Agri-food transformations in Northern Australia: The work of local actors in mediating financial investments
Langford, Alexandra (2020). Agri-food transformations in Northern Australia: The work of local actors in mediating financial investments. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2020.698
Journal Article: Capitalising the farm family entrepreneur: negotiating private equity partnerships in Australia
Langford, Alexandra (2019). Capitalising the farm family entrepreneur: negotiating private equity partnerships in Australia. Australian Geographer, 50 (4), 1-19. doi: 10.1080/00049182.2019.1682320
(2022) Monash University
(2022) Monash University
(2021–2022) Monash University
Langford, Alexandra (2022). A ‘Rule of Thumb’ and the return on investment: the role of valuation devices in the financialization of Northern Australian pastoral land. Valuation Studies, 8 (2), 37-60. doi: 10.3384/vs.2001-5992.2021.8.2.37-60
'I want to sleep at night as well': guilt and care in the making of agricultural credit markets
Langford, Alexandra, Brekelmans, Alana and Lawrence, Geoffrey (2021). 'I want to sleep at night as well': guilt and care in the making of agricultural credit markets. Markets in their place: context, culture, finance. (pp. 122-140) edited by Russell Prince, Matthew Henry, Carolyn Morris, Aisling Gallagher and Stephen FitzHerbert. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429296260-7
Financialization for development? Asset making on Indigenous land in remote northern Australia
Langford, Alexandra, Lawrence, Geoffrey and Smith, Kiah (2021). Financialization for development? Asset making on Indigenous land in remote northern Australia. Development and Change, 52 (3), 574-597. doi: 10.1111/dech.12648
Langford, Alexandra, Smith, Kiah and Lawrence, Geoffrey (2020). Financialising governance? State actor engagement with private finance for rural development in the Northern Territory of Australia. Research in Globalization, 2 100026, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.resglo.2020.100026
Langford, Alexandra (2020). Agri-food transformations in Northern Australia: The work of local actors in mediating financial investments. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2020.698
Capitalising the farm family entrepreneur: negotiating private equity partnerships in Australia
Langford, Alexandra (2019). Capitalising the farm family entrepreneur: negotiating private equity partnerships in Australia. Australian Geographer, 50 (4), 1-19. doi: 10.1080/00049182.2019.1682320
'I want to sleep at night as well': guilt and care in the making of agricultural credit markets
Langford, Alexandra, Brekelmans, Alana and Lawrence, Geoffrey (2021). 'I want to sleep at night as well': guilt and care in the making of agricultural credit markets. Markets in their place: context, culture, finance. (pp. 122-140) edited by Russell Prince, Matthew Henry, Carolyn Morris, Aisling Gallagher and Stephen FitzHerbert. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429296260-7
Price analysis of the Indonesian carrageenan seaweed industry
Langford, Alexandra, Zhang, Jing, Waldron, Scott, Julianto, Boedi, Siradjuddin, Irsyadi, Neish, Iain and Nuryartono, Nunung (2022). Price analysis of the Indonesian carrageenan seaweed industry. Aquaculture, 550 737828, 737828. doi: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2021.737828
Langford, Alexandra (2022). A ‘Rule of Thumb’ and the return on investment: the role of valuation devices in the financialization of Northern Australian pastoral land. Valuation Studies, 8 (2), 37-60. doi: 10.3384/vs.2001-5992.2021.8.2.37-60
Financialization for development? Asset making on Indigenous land in remote northern Australia
Langford, Alexandra, Lawrence, Geoffrey and Smith, Kiah (2021). Financialization for development? Asset making on Indigenous land in remote northern Australia. Development and Change, 52 (3), 574-597. doi: 10.1111/dech.12648
Monitoring the COVID-19-affected Indonesian seaweed industry using remote sensing data
Langford, Alexandra, Waldron, Scott, Sulfahri, and Saleh, Hasnawati (2021). Monitoring the COVID-19-affected Indonesian seaweed industry using remote sensing data. Marine Policy, 127 104431, 104431. doi: 10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104431
Langford, Alexandra, Smith, Kiah and Lawrence, Geoffrey (2020). Financialising governance? State actor engagement with private finance for rural development in the Northern Territory of Australia. Research in Globalization, 2 100026, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.resglo.2020.100026
Langford, Alexandra , Waldron, Scott and Sulfahri (2020, 11 27). Fleksibilitas petani menjadikan Indonesia pemain utama di pasar rumput laut global, meski masih banyak yang harus dikerjakan The Conversation Indonesia
Fungal pretreatment as a sustainable and low cost option for bioethanol production from marine algae
Sulfahri, Mushlihah, Siti, Husain, Dirayah R., Langford, Alexandra and Tassakka, Asmi Citra Malina A.R. (2020). Fungal pretreatment as a sustainable and low cost option for bioethanol production from marine algae. Journal of Cleaner Production, 265 121763, 121763. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.121763
Ozonolysis as an effective pretreatment strategy for bioethanol production from marine algae
Sulfahri,, Mushlihah, Siti, Langford, Alexandra and Tassakka, Asmi Citra Malina A. R. (2020). Ozonolysis as an effective pretreatment strategy for bioethanol production from marine algae. BioEnergy Research, 13 (4), 1269-1279. doi: 10.1007/s12155-020-10131-w
Capitalising the farm family entrepreneur: negotiating private equity partnerships in Australia
Langford, Alexandra (2019). Capitalising the farm family entrepreneur: negotiating private equity partnerships in Australia. Australian Geographer, 50 (4), 1-19. doi: 10.1080/00049182.2019.1682320
The morphology of crystallisation of PHBV/PHBV copolymer blends
Langford, Alexandra, Chan, Clement Matthew, Pratt, Steven, Garvey, Christopher J. and Laycock, Bronwyn (2018). The morphology of crystallisation of PHBV/PHBV copolymer blends. European Polymer Journal, 112, 104-119. doi: 10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2018.12.022
Levett, Ian, Birkett, Greg, Davies, Nick, Bell, Aidan, Langford, Alexandra, Laycock, Bronwyn, Lant, Paul and Pratt, Steven (2016). Techno-economic assessment of poly-3-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) production from methane - the case for thermophilic bioprocessing. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 4 (4A), 3724-3733. doi: 10.1016/j.jece.2016.07.033
Laycock, Bronwyn, Arcos-Hernandez, Monica V., Langford, Alexandra, Buchanan, Jessica, Halley, Peter J., Werker, Alan, Lant, Paul A. and Pratt, Steven (2014). Thermal properties and crystallization behavior of fractionated blocky and random polyhydroxyalkanoate copolymers from mixed microbial cultures. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 131 (19) 40836, 1-19. doi: 10.1002/app.40836
Crystallisation and fractionation of selected polyhydroxyalkanoates produced from mixed cultures
Laycock, Bronwyn, Arcos-Hernandez, Monica V., Langford, Alexandra, Pratt, Steven, Werker, Alan, Halley, Peter J. and Lant, Paul A. (2014). Crystallisation and fractionation of selected polyhydroxyalkanoates produced from mixed cultures. New Biotechnology, 31 (4), 345-356. doi: 10.1016/j.nbt.2013.05.005
Price analysis of the Indonesian seaweed industry
Langford, Alexandra , Zhang, Jing, Waldron, Scott and Nuryartono, Nunung (2021). Price analysis of the Indonesian seaweed industry. Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, Sydney, Australia, 8-12 February 2021. Sydney, Australia:
Opportunities in applied, transdisciplinary research on the Indonesian seaweed industry
Langford, Alexandra (2021). Opportunities in applied, transdisciplinary research on the Indonesian seaweed industry. Agri-Food Research Network Symposium, Online, 9-10 February 2021.
Writing the ‘rules of custom’: hybridisation of Indigenous and state land law in Vanuatu
Langford, Alexandra (2019). Writing the ‘rules of custom’: hybridisation of Indigenous and state land law in Vanuatu. International Anthropology and Law Symposium, Tuscon, AZ USA, 5-19 November 2019.
Assetising Indigenous land: New approaches to development from northern Australia
Langford, Alexandra , Lawrence, Geoffrey and Smith, Kiah (2019). Assetising Indigenous land: New approaches to development from northern Australia. Agri-Food XXVI: The 26th International Conference of the Agri-food Research Network, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1-4 December 2019.
Smith, Kiah, Lawrence, Geoffrey and Langford, Alexandra (2019). Mapping farmland ownership in Australia: corporate, state and institutional capital investments since 2008. XXVIII European Society for Rural Sociology Congress (ESRS2019), Trondheim, Norway, 25-28 June 2019.
Langford, Alexandra (2018). Agricultural land markets in Northern Australia: aspirations of local market mediators to reflect, create and control. 25th International Conference of the Agri-food Research Network (Agri-Food XXV), Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 2-5 December 2018.
Financialisation and the development of Northern Australia
Langford, Alexandra (2017). Financialisation and the development of Northern Australia. Agri-Food XXIV: The 24th International Conference of the Agri-food Research Network, Bandung, Indonesia, 2-5 December 2017.
Financialisation in the Northern Territory cattle industry
Langford, Alexandra (2016). Financialisation in the Northern Territory cattle industry. Agri-Food XXIII: The 23rd International Conference of the Agri-food Research Network, Adelaide, Australia, 6-9 December, 2016.
Langford, Alexandra, Zhang, Jing, Waldron, Scott, Siradjuddin, Irsyadi and Nuryartono, Nunung (2022, 01 14). Harga rumput laut yang fluktuatif pengaruhi Indonesia sebagai produsen terbesar dunia. Apa saja penyebabnya? The Conversation Indonesia
Indonesia is the world’s largest seaweed producer, but why are prices so volatile?
Langford, Alexandra, Zhang, Jing, Waldron, Scott, Siradjuddin, Irsyadi and Nuryartono, Nunung (2022, 01 14). Indonesia is the world’s largest seaweed producer, but why are prices so volatile? The Conversation
One Indonesian industry has boomed during the pandemic: seaweed farming
Langford, Alexandra, Hasnawati Saleh, Waldron, Scott and Sulfahri (2021, 03 15). One Indonesian industry has boomed during the pandemic: seaweed farming The Conversation
Submission to Senate Standing Committee on Economics Inquiry into foreign investment proposals
Smith, Kiah, Langford, Alexandra and Lawrence, Geoffrey (2020). Submission to Senate Standing Committee on Economics Inquiry into foreign investment proposals. Canberra, ACT: Senate Standing Committees on Economics.
Alexandra Langford, Scott Waldron and Sulfahri (2020, 11 21). Seaweed farmers’ flexibility makes Indonesia a major player in global markets, but there is more work to be done The Conversation
A diagnostic analysis of the South Sulawesi seaweed industry
Nunung Nuryartono, Scott Waldron, Kustiariyah Tarman, Ulfah J. Siregar, Syamsul H. Pasaribu, Alexandra Langford, Sulfahri and Muhammad Farid Dimjati Lusno (2020). A diagnostic analysis of the South Sulawesi seaweed industry. Melbourne, VIC: Australia-Indonesia Centre.
Langford, Alexandra (2020). Agri-food transformations in Northern Australia: The work of local actors in mediating financial investments. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2020.698
Langford, Alexandra (2020). Remote natural resource-based enterprise development in Northern Australian coastal Indigenous communities. -:
Vanuatu Custom Land Management Policy Outlook
Alexandra Langford (2019). Vanuatu Custom Land Management Policy Outlook. Port Vila: Custom Land Management Office.
Smallholder market access in rural Vanuatu
Langford, Alexandra (2016). Smallholder market access in rural Vanuatu. Honours Thesis, UNE Business School, University of New England.
Crystalline Morphology Analysis of Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) Biopolymers
Langford, Alexandra (2013). Crystalline Morphology Analysis of Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) Biopolymers. Honours Thesis, School of Chemical Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia.
Langford, Alexandra (2013). Environmental Impact Assessment of Stand-alone Solar Photovoltaic Systems in Rural Melanesian Communities. Honours Thesis, School of Chemical Engineering, University of Queensland.
(2022) Monash University
(2022) Monash University
(2021–2022) Monash University
(2020) Monash University