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Irrigated farm businesses

Increasing the resilience

Irrigated farm businesses currently face a number of problems—reduced water allocations and river flows, increased climate variability, and economic pressures.

In order to remain profitable and increase the productivity of water supplies, urgent action is required.

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.

Water Allocation to the River Murray wetlands

A basin wide modeling approach

How much water do the wetlands of the Murray River need? This project developed a model of the wetland plant community in 2,746 wetlands from the NSW and Victorian portions of the Murray River basin. The model used as data the average length of time out of each year each wetland was connected to the River Murray over the period 1990-2000. This value, called the connectivity, quantifies the wetting-drying cycle of a wetland. It describes the gradient between a (more)...

Integrated natural and cultural resources management options for pastoral lands in the East Kimberley

The research project highlights the challenges involved in promoting sustainable development on Indigenous-held pastoral properties in the East Kimberley. Cultural traditions and aspirations, conventional natural resource management (NRM) practices and institutional issues all need to be addressed simultaneously to improve management outcomes in northern Australia. Integrated planning options identified by the project will inform policy makers on indigenous (more)...

Provision for Cultural Values in Water Management:

the Anmatyerr Story

Water is central to Indigenous law and culture. A range of local to international policies, legislation and guidelines now entitle the interests of Aboriginal people in Australia. There is a need to better understand the importance Aboriginal people place on water, but most importantly to make provisions for these values in water policy, water plans and water management. Cultural water values face potential risks when water is diverted or used for various purposes.

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.