Signposts for Australian Agriculture 2008-02-01T05:06:18Z 2008-09-05T03:49:58Z Signposts for Australian Agriculture Preliminary framework and collation of industry profiles - Final Report Stage 1, February 2005 J Chesson, B Whitworth, Bureau of Rural Sciences, J Chesson, B Whitworth, Bureau of Rural Sciences, <p>The preliminary framework and industry profiles, developed during the pilot phase of the Signposts for Australian Agriculture project, provides a draft framework for reporting on the contribution of Australian agriculture to ecologically sustainable development. The framework is being developed through a consultative process and readers are invited to respond to questions posed throughout the report.</p> <p>The appendices use the draft framework to develop profiles of an industry&rsquo;s contributions to ESD and provide examples of what a profile may look like for an individual industry. Each industry profile provides a set of ESD component trees and hyperlinks to relevant information.</p> <p>During the pilot phase of the Signposts for Australian Agriculture project, the Audit sponsored a project with Land &amp; Water Australia to provide an initial stocktake of the current extent of reporting by Research and Development Corporations on the contribution of their industries to Ecologically Sustainable Development.</p> ER050853 ER050853 BRR31