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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.

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.

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)...

Developing institutional arrangements of Indigenous participation in the National Water Initiative

This Final Milestone Report and attached fact sheets have been prepared by the North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance (NAILSMA) for endorsement by Land & Water Australia (LWA).

Managing fertigation technologies in citrus orchards

With recent advances in technology irrigators can now more precisely control delivery of mineral nutrients and water to the roots of perennial tree crops. These technologies, collectively referred to as fertigation, provide the opportunity to adopt and implement highly technical management programs, such as open hydroponics, that use drip irrigation to deliver a balanced mixture of nutrients and water. This research bulletin provides an overview of a project, funded by the National (more)...

Signposts for Australian Agriculture – Review of social components of the framework

Final report prepared for the Bureau of Rural Sciences

Signposts for Australian Agriculture is a project coordinated by the National Land and Water Resources Audit, with initial funding from the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Recognising the importance of this initiative, the Bureau of Rural Sciences has allocated its own funding to support Signposts. The 2005-06 funding includes provision to carry out a review of the social components of the Signposts for Australian Agriculture Framework. This review follows on from a review carried out (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.