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Irrigation Essentials

Research and innovation for Australian irrigators

The NPSI Knowledge Harvest brings together information from across the National Program for Sustainable Irrigation (NPSI) projects, highlighting key findings and promoting wider understanding. This document is a key part of the On-farm Irrigation Essentials theme. It summarises the fundamental principles underlying efficient and profitable irrigation, gives examples of leading-edge technologies and directs readers to sources of more (more)...

Land & Water Australia Annual Report 2008-2009

The final annual report for Land & Water Australia.

Land and Water Australia 1990 - 2009 DVD

Research reports and publications

Land & Water Australia addressed the challenges of managing Australia’s land and water resources through an integrated portfolio of research investments focused on productivity growth balanced with sustainability. This disc contains Final Reports, guides, tools, and other publications from nearly 20 years of sustainable natural resource management research. ORDERING (more)...

Economic analysis of investment in Indigenous natural resource management

Indigenous Australians directly own and/or manage approximately 20 per cent of Australia’s land area. They are therefore significant managers of Australia’s natural resources. They are also key stakeholders in the management of other areas and resources (e.g. water) over which they don’t hold the primary management role. Indigenous Australians also hold significant intellectual property in understanding and managing these natural resources.

Seasonal labour is the most profitable use of labour in broadacre crop dominant farms

Many broadacre farms in Western Australia (WA) experience problems in attracting and retaining farm labour. A survey of WA farmers (Rabobank 2007) reported that of the 69 percent of farmers who required additional labour over the previous 12 months, 14 percent said it was ‘impossible’ to find labour. A further 62 percent said they had experienced some difficultly attracting adequate labour. To overcome this labour shortage, 41% of the survey (more)...

Farmers do not want to outsource their sheep enterprise

In many regions in Western Australia farm size is increasing and there is less labour available. To combat this many farmers are putting more priority into cropping and less effort into their less profitable enterprises such as livestock production. The resulting decrease in stocking rates makes the enterprise even less profitable. The farmers are also less likely to establish perennial pastures due to the perceived workload increase. One solution to this problem is for farmers to get a professional (more)...

Economic analysis of investment in stream–aquifer interaction technical and management challenges

return on investment report

Return on investment report Land & Water Australia investmented in this project through a Senior Research Fellowship granted by Land & Water Australia to Dr Richard Evans. The project was initiated in November 2004 and the final report submitted in March 2007. The rationale for this Land and Water Australia project included the lack of a national approach for managing Australian groundwater resources and no nationally (more)...

Natural Resource Management Governance for change

Revisiting ‘good’ governance through an adaptive lens

This paper is an addendum to the Pathways to good practice in NRM governance Phase 1 series of reports and scholarly papers funded by Land & Water Australia from 2005 to 2008. As part of a second phase of the project, we undertook to undertake a comparative analysis of the various natural resource management (NRM) audit and assessment instruments; and test the applicability of our Standard (more)...

Governance principles for natural resource management

Sustainable natural resource use and management make novel demands on governance arrangements, the design of which requires normative guidance. Although governance principles have been developed for diverse contexts, their availability for sustainable natural resource governance is so far limited. In response, we present a suite of governance principles for natural resource governance that, while developed in an Australian multi-level context, has general applicability and significance at local, (more)...

Murrumbidgee Wetland Seedbank Research Project

Preliminary report

The majority of wetlands along the Murrumbidgee are owned privately, yet little is known about these wetlands and there is evidence they are in poor ecological condition (Spencer et. al. 1998). This project was aimed at discovering the nature of the plant communities within wetlands on private land on the Murrumbidgee River. At the commencement of the project the region was in the midst of a drought, meaning vegetation surveys would not have been fruitful. A soil seedbank study was conducted instead. (more)...