Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

Papers from the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 'Outlook' Conference of 2013.  Report Locationhttp://www.daff.gov.au/abares/outlook-2013/conference-program ....

The 2012–13 Annual Report records a year of change, milestones and outstanding achievement in providing services to Victorians. The most significant change, announced by the Premier of Victoria on 9 April 2013, was the merger of the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) and the Department of Primary Industrie ....

Annual Report of the Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries.  Report Locationhttp://www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/WebPages/SSKA-9CP26X?open ....

This report looks at procedures and processes related to non-tariff measures in agricultural trade. Based on the prior that countries are likely to make efforts to reduce the trade hindering effects of domestic food regulation within regional trade agreements, we focus on three different RTAs, including the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement, th ....

Lifestyle farmers have been identified as a poorly performing landholder segment with regard to weed management in Australia. However, despite their often non-economic land management goals, and the range of impediments they face, many lifestyle farmers are keen to improve their weed management skills. Our goal was therefore to pro ....

An ongoing crisis in Australian agriculture resulting from climate crises including drought, decreasing irrigation water, more recent catastrophic flooding, and an uncertain policy environment is reshaping gender relations in the intimate sphere of the farm family. Drawing on research conducted in the Murray-Darling Basin area of Australia we ask ....

In 1997, Merrill Lynch executive Peter Whish-Wilson stood at the window of his office in the South Tower of New York's World Trade Center and decided to give up his career in banking. When four years later a Boeing 767 flew into the tower, Whish-Wilson was back in Australia planning his life as a vintner in northern Tasmania.   The return ....

Agritourism and food tourism have been a part of the rural and agricultural landscape in Australia for some time. Recently there have been more coordinated regional approaches to agritourism and food tourism as a strategy for growth and improving the resilience of individual businesses or rural communities. In this context, the Dep ....

This report provides an overview of current and future drivers of structural adjustment for Australia's agricultural industries. It describes the ways these adjustment pressures impact on the rural and regional sectors, and options for farmers to manage these changes. The report also provides some preliminary analysis, by way of selected case stu ....

The Sustainable Farm Families project engages with farming families by informing them about healthy living options and farm safety, recognising that family health is essential for them to effectively utilise their economic and natural resources. This evidence-based program works with farming families in an educative and proactive m ....

Tasmania is a small, beautiful and remote part of the world with unique features and rich natural resources that the world increasingly values. The Economic Development Plan centres on making the most of Tasmania’s assets to secure prosperity and jobs. Report Locationhttp://www.development.tas.gov.au/?a=74065 ....

The fourth case study reports technology transfer performance as a widespread and major concern for research, development and extension managers and their clients. The principal aim of this project was to apply contemporary best practice in agricultural extension systems to research, development and extension focused on the complex ....

This Conference, and the research and planning which was necessary for its success, has brought together financial sector and rural and agribusiness sector expertise to take a new look at the issue equity and credit financing for the rural sector. Rural finance has had a long and sometimes turbulent history in Australia. This Conference was not i ....

This paper briefly outlines demographic trends in Australia, addressing issues of: rural employment; changes in agriculture; economic reform and access to global markets; the cost of sustainable economic growth; restrictions on trade; and the challenge for rural health services. Report Locationhttp://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/10767/20020 ....