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Social and economic surveys

Farmers' use of sustainable management practices

ABARE report for the National Land and Water Resources Audit

This report presents the results from a survey of Australian broadacre farmers’ use of sustainable land management practices. The National Land and Water Resources Audit (NLWRA) commissioned ABARE to design and conduct a national survey to collect data on farmers’ adoption of specified natural resource management and business management practices. An understanding of land managers’ willingness and capacity to adopt (more)...

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)...