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    <site:program_Title>Joint Venture Agroforestry Program</site:program_Title>
    <site:program_Body>&lt;p&gt;The Joint Venture Agroforestry R&amp;amp;D Program (JVAP) aimed to integrate agroforestry into Australian farming systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
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&lt;p&gt;The Joint Venture Agroforestry Program was established in 1993. Its core partners are the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, Land &amp;amp; Water Australia, and Forest &amp;amp; Wood Products Australia. RIRDC is the managing agent. The Natural Heritage Trust and Murray-Darling Basin Commission also contributed significant resources to the program.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;h2&gt;What is Joint Venture Agroforestry R&amp;amp;D&lt;/h2&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;The objective of the program was to provide knowledge to underpin profitable, sustainable and resilient agroforestry within Australian farming systems and landscapes.  Farm forestry has a critical role to play in the dramatically changing contexts of climate change and emissions trading policies and programs.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;JVAP has:&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
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    &lt;li&gt;developed an economic model to show agroforestry benefits&lt;/li&gt;&#13;
    &lt;li&gt;highlighted market links between farming and processing&lt;/li&gt;&#13;
    &lt;li&gt;reviewed the removal of impediments to farm forestry development&lt;/li&gt;&#13;
    &lt;li&gt;released information on tree water use and species selection&lt;/li&gt;&#13;
    &lt;li&gt;published guidelines for revegetating areas that have shallow, saline watertables, and&lt;/li&gt;&#13;
    &lt;li&gt;released a report on tree performance databases and selection systems.&lt;/li&gt;&#13;
&lt;/ul&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;The program disseminates information through reports and newsletters. It has developed a series of publications titled Water and Salinity Issues in Agroforestry and has produced the book &lt;strong&gt;Commercial Timber Species for Sub-tropical Australia&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;h2&gt;More information&lt;/h2&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;For further information, browse current and completed research projects or contact the Research Managers, please visit the &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://www.rirdc.gov.au/RIRDC/programs/national-rural-issues/agroforestry-and-farm-forestry/agroforestry-and-farm-forestry_home.cfm&quot;&gt;Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;h2&gt;Related resources&lt;/h2&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;For news and videos from the Science in the Paddock event visit the &lt;a href=&quot;http://lwa.gov.au/news/2009/jun/17/farming-trees-profit-and-conservation&quot;&gt;Farming trees for profit and conservation&lt;/a&gt; news page.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;Thinking Bush 7 is a special issue which&lt;a href=&quot;http://lwa.gov.au/products/pn21597&quot;&gt; focuses on Agroforestry&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</site:program_Body>
    <site:created rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime">2009-06-22T04:21:01Z</site:created>
    <site:changed rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime">2009-08-19T04:41:44Z</site:changed>
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    <site:program_Program_abbv>JVAP</site:program_Program_abbv>
    <site:program_Program_start>1993</site:program_Program_start>
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