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Life Cycle Assessments: A useful tool for Australian agriculture

Climate change poses specific challenges for Australia’s primary industries, with mounting public concern and media scrutiny about the way food is grown and distributed through markets. As well, there is increasing domestic and international legal and regulatory pressures to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

The Australian Pork Industry: Understanding climate change impacts

This fact sheet discusses climate change and the associated impacts and opportunities for the Australian pork industry. It also includes a glossary of climate change-specific terminology.

Climate Change Update: On-farm bioenergy in the Pork Industry

This is a fact sheet discussing opportunities for the Australian pork industry in relation to bioenergy production.

Drought, the “creeping disaster”

 An interview with Senior Research Fellow, Professor Sam Lake Karin Holzknecht spoke to Professor Sam Lake about his Fellowship, his research, and about Australia’s “creeping disaster”: drought. To begin, could you please summarise your experience of being a Land (more)...

Irrigation Update 10

Modernisation of Irrigation Water Delivery Systems

This issue discusses the opportunities and challenges of upgrading irrigation water delivery infrastructure across Australia.

Climate change impacts on Australia’s rangeland livestock carrying capacity: A review of challenges

Final Report

This report reviews the current state of knowledge in terms of assessing the impacts of climate change on livestock carrying capacity (LCC) in Australian rangelands, particularly concentrating on northern Australia. The report is based on two previous publications (McKeon 2006, McKeon et al. 2009) and documents the importance of livestock carrying capacity as a driver of rangeland productivity and resource condition. We reviewed calculation procedures using climate (more)...

Dr Greg McKeon

Climate change and natural resource management in Australia’s grazing lands Greg McKeon’s Land & Water Australia Senior Research Fellowship is a synthesis of the significant management issues, uncertainties and risks analyses needed to inform productive and sustainable rangelands agriculture. Climate change impacts on rangeland livestock carrying capacity: where the risk of an already hot, dry and variable climate changes under global warming. The (more)...
Photos from the Water Planner's Forum

National Water Planner's Forum

In February 2009, a two day National Water Planner’s Forum was held. The Forum covered two issues identified by Water Planners as being critically important

ABARE Conference - Farming in the Dry

Ken Moore, manager of the Social and Institutional Research Program at Land & Water Australia, recently told delegates at the Farming in the Dry session of the The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) Outlook Conference that drought is a long-term component of Australia’s climate, yet our Government’s and broader society continue to perceive it as requiring natural (more)...