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Quantification of the environmental costs of weeds

The purpose of this project was to quantify (a) the environmental impacts and (b) the relative benefits and costs of control of two tropical invasive grasses. The project reviewed the existing studies on the environmental impact of tropical invasive grass…

Workshop Report North Rockhampton

Economic, Environmental and Social Costs and Benefits of Buffel Grass and its Management

Buffel grass is valued in many regions for its contribution to livestock production, while also being regarded as a threat to biodiversity assets, often within the same region. As part of this research, we (CSIRO) ran a workshop in Rockhampton in November…

Pastoralists' perceptions of the benefits and cost of buffel grass

This report is an attempt to quantify the broad spectrum of benefits and costs of buffel grass to pastoralists, and the likely pastoral response to potential changes in buffel grass management strategies that aim to minimise the environmental costs of…

Quantifying costs and benefits of buffel grass

Full Report

Buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) is an introduced pasture grass of significant commercial value but which also presents a major threat to conservation values in the rangelands. This report integrates the outcomes of regional workshops with institutional…

Quantifying costs and benefits of buffel grass

Buffel grass is a major environmental weed with the potential to establish in over 60% of mainland Australia.
It is also highly prized by many pastoralists as an exotic pasture grass for livestock. Within these two conflicting views there is a spectrum…

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Benefits and costs of buffel grass

understanding perceptions can contribute to policy development

Buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) is a valuable introduced species for pastoral production but its invasion into arid and semi-arid rangelands represents a key threatening process for conservation values.

Irrigation Innovation in a Changing Climate Workshop Report

The aim of the workshop was to kick off a process to develop a ten-year irrigation innovation strategy. The workshop, held in Canberra on 16 September 2008, attracted about 100 participants from a broad cross-section of the irrigation industry. It included people from urban water organisations, garden irrigation supply companies, irrigators, policy makers, researchers, manufacturers and rural water supply organisations.

Irrigation innovation in a changing climate

Workshop report

Irrigation Australia Limited (IAL), the National Program for Sustainable Irrigation (NPSI) and the Cooperative Research Centre for Irrigation Futures (CRCIF) see the need for a paradigm shift in irrigation innovation. This need has been highlighted further by the climatic conditions of the early 21st Century, but it has been evident for some time. Such a shift would enable the irrigation industry to improve its water use (more)...