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Sustainable Farming

Mapping the Spatial Footprint of Australian Agricultural Industries

The purpose of this project was to generate spatial datasets that identify the extent of land used by Australian agricultural industries.

Mapping the spatial footprint of Australian agricultural industries

This report describes spatial datasets derived from the Agricultural Census that identify the extent of land used by Australian agricultural industries and maps the spatial footprint of six industries of interest to the Signposts project. These maps show where production of cotton, milk cattle , beef cattle, wine grapes, horticulture and grains occur and have changed over time. There are two spatial boundaries structures that have been used in this report, one is based on statistical local areas and (more)...

Sustainable Farming

Climate change, constraints on land and water for food production; rapid increases in the cost of agricultural inputs; and increasing world demand for food are changing the face of agriculture. The speed of social change is increasing through the globalisation of markets and economic influences, and instantaneous world-wide communication.

People, Practice and Policy

A review of social and institutional research