Research

Land & Water Australia's R&D Investment

Investing in R&D for sustainable natural resource management is Land & Water Australia's core business and our highest priority. Our R&D management processes are focussed on:

• the identification of national priorities;
• selection of topics where we can add most value;
• development of the most effective interventions;
• design and implementation of the research and adoption process; and
• evaluation of the results.

Our Research Investment Performance Indicator 

Generation of new knowledge useful to the sustainable management and use of Australia's natural resources

Structure

Our research portfolio will be structured around four arenas: Industries, Landscapes,People and Innovation.

We do not intend that these arenas become separate 'silos', and we are determined to continue to strengthen our capacity to look across arenas and manage our whole portfolio of current and previous R&D in a comprehensive and integrated way.

Nevertheless, we do need to divide our portfolio into manageable chunks of activity with a degree of internal coherence. While no arena will focus on a single type of research, target audience or scale of activity, there are broad differences across these arenas that serve to characterise them.

An overarching principle for all arenas will be to ensure that each research programme and project draws upon the appropriate range of disciplines to address the typically complex NRM problems.

For more information about the Research Arenas, visit the Industries, Landscapes, People and Innovation pages of this site.