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Signposts for Australian Agriculture: The role of agriculture in natural resource management, economic growth and community life

The Signposts for Australian Agriculture project (‘Signposts’)is designed to provide quick and reliable information for government and industry policy makers to:

demonstrate and communicate industry performance

identify challenges and opportunit

Sourcebook for social and economic surveys

Assessing landmanagers' capacity to change and adopt sustainable management practices

The National Land & Water Resources Audit has commissioned this report to enable expertise in designing and implementing social and economic surveys for natural resource management (NRM) to be drawn together for the benefit of regional bodies, industry and government policy officers. This document outlines the steps involved in conducting a survey. It aims to provide regional bodies, industry and government policy officers with (more)...

Stocking rate decision tools for rangeland pastoralists

Stocking rate decisions are fundamental to pastoral management. While graziers factor in many environmental issues into their stocking rate decisions, few effectively incorporate all of the information that is either routinely collected on properties (e.g. rainfall, paddock grazing histories) or could be easily acquired (e.g. resource condition, seasonal climate forecasts). Stocking rate decision tools for rangeland pastoralists aimed to make this information more readily useable to assist (more)...