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Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

Hawkesbury harvest - a multifunctional agriculture model for regional rural development

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Mason, David
  • Journal Name: Extension Farming Systems Journal
  • Journal Number: Vol. 7, No. 2
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

Across Australia there is growing policy emphasis on developing the resilience capacity of farmers, farming families and rural communities to deal with increasing climate and economic variability and uncertainty. Innovative ideas and concepts arise out of concern for the future of things people think is important to their quality o ....

Health and Safety on Australian Farms

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Tony Lower , Lyn Fragar, John Temperley
  • Publisher: Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation
  • Published Location: Barton, ACT
  • ISBN: 9781742541891
  • Country: Australia

This report provides for the first time in Australia, national baseline data to determine the proportion of farming enterprises, by specific industry and by state, that have in place systems and processes that meet current regulatory and industry standards for protection of the health and safety of persons who live, work and/or visit farm workpla ....

Healthy ageing: farming into the twilight

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Rogers, Maureen, Barr, Neil, O'Callaghan, Zoe, Brumby, Susan and Warburton, Jeni
  • Journal Name: Rural Society
  • Journal Number: Vol. 22, No. 3
  • Publisher: eContent Management Pty Ltd
  • Published Location: Maleny, Qld.
  • ISBN: 1037-1656
  • Country: Australia

Policy directives in agriculture have long been concerned with encouraging low producing farmers to retire - with limited success. From a healthy ageing perspective, the choice to remain on the farm into advancing years could appear a desirable policy outcome. Yet as farmers age, many with little prospect of inter-generational succession, there i ....

Heartland: The Regeneration of Rural Place

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Main, George
  • Publisher: UNSW Press
  • Published Location: Sydney, NSW
  • ISBN: 9780868408736
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

How do we see and relate to the agricultural heartlands of Australia? Might alternative ways of imagining and engaging with rural places enable ecological and social regeneration? In Heartland, George Main takes us on a journey through the country of his childhood to explore the cultural and historical dynamics responsible for ecological change a ....

Highlights of IFPRI’s recent food policy research for the government of Australia

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: International Food Policy Research Institute
  • Publisher: International Food Policy Research Institute

In the wake of the food crises of the early 1970s and the resulting World Food Conference of 1974, a group of innovators realized that food security depends not only on crop production, but also on the policies that affect food systems, from farm to table. In 1975, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) was founded. IFPRI was fo ....

Hiring Good Quality Farm Labour

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Nugent, Toni
  • Publisher: Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation
  • Published Location: Barton, ACT
  • ISBN: 1741512093
  • Country: Australia

An effective work force can make or break a farming business, so it is vital for farmers to place particular emphasis on the employment process. This report provides a guide for farmers looking to employ staff, both family and non-family, and shows how adopting a professional approach can make the process of employing staff m ....

Horticulture Australia Research

  • Year: Various
  • Author: Horticulture Australia Ltd
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: National
  • Scope: Divided by: State: National
    Region: No
    Industry: Yes
  • Regularity: Various
  • Nature of Data (Primary/Secondary): Commissioning

An extensive body of research related to Horticulture This resource provides a wealth of publications on regional issues, including specific reports relating to horticulture in regional Australia. As a collection, these publications provide valuable information on rural industry. Report Locationhttp://www.horticulture.com.au/default.asp ....

How are ageing farmers constructed in the draft Murray Darling basin plan and immediate media reports?

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Heather Downey, Guin Threlkeld, Jeni Warburton
  • Journal Name: Rural Society
  • Journal Number: Vol. 23 No.1
  • Publisher: eContent Management Pty Ltd
  • Published Location: Maleny, Qld.
  • ISBN: 1037-1656
  • Country: Australia

By using a Foucauldian discourse analysis, this article examines how ageing farmers are constructed in the second in a series of three Draft Murray Darling Basin, (MDB) Plans which was released in November, 2011, and in media reports from the week beginning 28 November, 2011. Recommendations from the Second Draft Plan will impact on farming pract ....

How Export Restrictive Measures Affect Trade of Agricultural Commodities

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: P. Liapis
  • Journal Name: OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers
  • Journal Number: 63
  • Publisher: OECD

Information on export restrictive measures was collected from 16 countries for the period 2007 to 2011 or 2012 depending on the country. The data indicate that export measures were applied across the whole spectrum of agricultural and food products, but grains, oilseeds and vegetable oils were particularly targeted. A variety of measures were emp ....

How to Destroy a Country Town

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Staley, Louise
  • Journal Name: Institute of Public Affairs Review: A Quarterly Review of Politics and Public Affairs, The
  • Journal Number: Vol. 57, No. 4
  • Country: Australia

The author argues that increased government regulation of farming and other rural community activities is smothering rural economic growth and farming families' participation in voluntary community groups. The variable and lower prices given for their produce and reduced local services are also affecting rural life and communities. ....

Hungernomics: explaining food trade sustainability

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Lau, E.; Hamzah, S. N. Z.; Sallih, S. A.; Arip, M. A
  • Journal Name: International Food Research Journal
  • Journal Number: 20:5
  • Publisher: Universiti Putra Malaysia, Faculty of Food Science and Technology
  • Country: Malaysia

This study explores the relationship between the total exports and total imports of the food industry in Sarawak from 1961 through 2007. We examined the sample period of the pre-1997 crisis (1961-1996) and the full sample period (1961-2007) to investigate disparities for pre-crisis sample. Analysis was carried out using standard econometric proce ....

Identifying on-farm management practices aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from sugarcane primary production

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: Park S; Lisson S; Harper J; Milford B; Thorburn P
  • Journal Name: Solutions for a new environment: Australian Agronomy Conference
  • ISBN: 0973031309
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland

A scoping study was undertaken to assess the potential for sugarcane growers to implement practical and effective abatement strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from sugarcane cropping. A range of management practices was explored for the Herbert River Qld region and the impact of the different agronomic regimes on annual ....

Identifying Priority Areas for Conservation Action in Agricultural Landscapes

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: Bennett, Andrew F; MacNally, Ralph
  • Journal Name: Pacific Conservation Biology
  • Journal Number: Vol. 10, No. 2
  • Country: Australia

Farming for food, fibre and other products for human consumption is a dominant land-use throughout the world. Rural landscapes are also critical to the conservation of flora and fauna, and the maintenance of ecological processes on which all of life depends. In Australia, excessive clearing of native vegetation in the most producti ....

Impact of water scarcity in Australia on global food security in an era of climate change

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Qureshi, M Ejaz; Hanjra, Munir A; Ward, John
  • Journal Name: Food Policy
  • Journal Number: 38
  • Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd.
  • Published Location: Kidlington, United Kingdom
  • ISBN: 03069192
  • Country: Australia

Australia is a major food exporting country. Recent droughts reduced dryland farming production and the volume of water allocated to irrigated agriculture, with a resulting decline in aggregate agricultural production and exports. This paper analyses the possible impact of increased water scarcity on Australian agricultural production and the mag ....

Implementing Agriculture for Development: World Bank Group Agriculture Action Plan 2013-2015

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Robert F. Townsend, Iride Ceccacci, Sanjiva Cooke, Mark Constantine, Moses Gene
  • Publisher: The World Bank

The future needs an agricultural system that produces about 50 percent more food to feed the world's 9 billion people by 2050; that provides adequate nutrition; that substantially raises the levels and resilience of incomes and employment for most of the world's poor, 75 percent of whom live in rural areas and most of whom rely on agriculture for ....

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