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Adaptive Agriculture: A Stocktake of Land & Water Australia’s Investments

Land & Water Australia has invested substantially over the years in both biophysical research and social and institutional research that have supported adaptive and sustainable agriculture. This knowledge base has helped Australian farmers to adapt in order to manage climate change, climate variability, biodiversity, water, land-use constraints and the wider expectations placed on farm families and rural communities.

Regional Natural Resource Management: A Stocktake of Land & Water Australia’s Investments

This report presents a strategic framework as a lens for examining the current collection of research on regional NRM from across Land & Water Australia’s (LWA) program portfolios, and for making recommendations on future directions and priorities for research investment. Specific recommendations are made on the basis of research findings from a sample of past investment, as well as from input from several members of (more)...

Adaptive Agriculture: A Stocktake of Land & Water Australia’s Investments

Implications for social and institutional research and communication

This ‘stocktake’ is really about sustainable agriculture, of which adaptive agriculture is one important element. Agriculture cannot be sustainable if it does not adapt to the threats and opportunities constantly facing it. Adaptive agriculture may therefore be seen as the means of producing food and fibre in ways that remain dynamic, vibrant, flexible and constantly responding to the natural environment and the operating environment of the market.

Economic assessment of selected investments of the National Program for Sustainable Irrigation (Phase1)

return on investment report

The National Program for Sustainable Irrigation (NPSI) required cost-benefit analyses to be undertaken on a number of its research investments from Phase 1 of the Program. Phase 1 of NPSI ran from July 2002 to June 2007. Eleven investments from Phase 1 were identified by NPSI as having potential for analysis, and these 11 investments were scanned by Agtrans using six criteria to further determine their suitability (more)...

Wet tropics - regional report card (Apr 2007)

This regional report card provides a two page summary for each of the Wet Tropics assets. The first page is devoted to a description outlining the goals for, and the status and trends in, the condition of the asset. These sections have been developed by the FNQ NRM Ltd theme leaders, and show the steps and actions that FNQ NRM Ltd are taking that will lead to the assessment of asset condition. The key (more)...