Future

Managing Weeds Under Future Scenarios for Environmental Flows in the Murray River

This project examined relationships between hydrological parameters relating to flooding and the location and abundance of exotic plant species in River Murray floodplain systems.

Final Report 10 – Business futures

Irrigation Futures of the Goulburn Broken Catchment The Goulburn Broken Catchment is known as the food bowl of Australia. It covers 2.4 million hectares and has a population of around 200,000 people (Department of Sustainability and Environment 2005). Irrigated agriculture is a major business engine in the Goulburn Broken region, producing more than $1.2 billion at the farm gate in 2001-2002 from about 280,000 hectares of irrigated agricultural land. Investment in on-farm and processing (more)...

Final Report 3 – Perspectives of future irrigation

This document was developed by the Irrigation Futures project team as a contribution to Goulburn-Murray Water’s irrigation reconfiguration processes. It has been included as a chapter in the Shepparton Regional Atlas as a part of Goulburn-Murray Water’s Strategic View of Assets and Service Needs. This document summarises the scenarios and their implications for irrigation infrastructure planning.

Final Report 1 – Scenarios of the future: Irrigation in the Goulburn Broken Region

The Goulburn Broken Catchment is known as the food bowl of Australia. It covers 2.4 million hectares and has a population of around 200,000 people (Department of Sustainability and Environment 2005). Irrigated agriculture is a major business engine in the Goulburn Broken Region, producing more than $1.2 billion at the farm gate in 2001-2002 from about 280,000 hectares of irrigated agricultural land. Investment in on-farm and processing infrastructure is about A$100 million per annum (Michael Young and (more)...

Irrigation Mosaics in Northern Australia

The Northern Australia Irrigation Futures (NAIF) project has undertaken a review of research into irrigation mosaics as an approach to irrigation in northern Australia. Irrigation mosaics involve smaller patches of irrigation distributed across the landscape as an alternative to large contiguous areas of irrigation (see Figure 1). This research has examined the current understanding of irrigation mosaics drawing lessons from ecology, forestry, meteorology and saline (more)...

What future for the East Kimberley?

Irrigation Insights 8 Scenarios of the future: Irrigation in the Goulburn Broken Region

This report, entitled Scenarios of the future, describes four plausible scenarios, developed for this project, of how the future might unfold. It explores the likely impacts of those scenarios for regional business, communities and the environment. It considers how those groups might respond to challenges and opportunities. It also explores the implications for major regional agencies associated with irrigated agriculture, and illustrates how those agencies are implementing their responses. Finally, it (more)...

Community participation in sustainable irrigation research

Many of the research projects commissioned by the National Program for Sustainable Irrigation (NPSI) have adopted innovative approaches to achieve strong connections between the researchers and the rest of the community. Finding ways to include the practical knowledge that comes from the community into research is crucial to achieving a sustainable future. This research bulletin outlines approaches to engaging with communities that have been successfully developed (more)...