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Enhancing the resilience of Australian rural communities to a future with less water

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Prudent-Richard, G; Sainsbury, M; Fearnley, A
  • Journal Name: Water and Climate: Policy Implementation Challenges; Proceedings of the 2nd Practical Responses to Climate Change Conference
  • Publisher: Engineers Australia
  • Published Location: Barton, A.C.T.
  • ISBN: 9780858259119
  • Country: Australia

This paper describes a process used to investigate how Murray-Darling Basin communities are likely to be affected by future changes in water availability, be they climate or policy driven. The paper also outlines some of the key methodologies employed across two projects in rural New South Wales (NSW) to comprehensively understand the implication ....

Environment: Murray-Darling issues miss the mainstream

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Paul Moritz
  • Journal Name: Chemistry in Australia
  • Journal Number: Mar 2013
  • Publisher: Royal Australian Chemical Institute
  • Published Location: Melbourne
  • ISBN: 0314-4240
  • Country: Australia

I lived in Adelaide until my mid 20s and, on moving to the eastern states, found myself having to fend off jibes about the quality of Adelaide's water supply. Initially, my response was to remark that Adelaide's water quality reflected what the eastern states put into the water that flowed down the Murray, the major source of Adelaide's water. Mo ....

Establishment of silvopastoral systems in degraded, grazed pastures: Tree seedling survival and forage production under trees in Panama

  • Year: 2007
  • Author: Dagang, Alyson B. K.
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: University of Florida
  • Published Location: United States -- Florida
  • ISBN: 9780549100539
  • Country: Panama

Silvopastoral systems that integrate trees on animal production units are reported to be a promising land-use activity. Research on methods of integrating trees into smallholder pasture systems for development of such systems in the tropics has, however, received little attention. In Panama, smallholder pastures are abundant across the ....

Ethanol - a Credible Diversification Opportunity for Non-metropolitan Regions of Australia

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Miles, Robert
  • Journal Name: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, The
  • Journal Number: Vol. 12, No. 1
  • Country: Australia

Interest in ethanol production is rising rapidly throughout the world as countries strive to address the declining stock of fossil fuels, pollution problems and meet their obligations under the Kyoto protocol. While ethanol provides a clean and green option as a fuel extender, within Australia the debate over the investment in etha ....

Evaluating Logistics Chain Technology-Australian Farmgate to Port

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Access Economics, Maunsell Australia
  • Publisher: Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation
  • Published Location: Barton, ACT
  • ISBN: 174151097X
  • Country: Australia

Evaluates the use of technology in the land-based export supply chain, to ensure it maximises Australia's global competitiveness - technology in the transport and distribution of agricultural produce is relatively low in the logistics chain, but provides an opportunity for improved productivity with improved communication infrastructure. - mark ....

Evaluation of sustainable agriculture outcomes from regional investment (NAP and NHT)

  • Author: RM Consulting Group, Bendigo; URS Australia Pty Ltd, Adelaide; Rural Directions, Clare; Griffin NRM, Manuka; Mark Gardener and Associates
  • Publisher: Australian Department of Environment and Heritage
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • Country: Australia

An evaluation of the effectiveness of regional approaches to natural resource management (NRM) in achieving sustainable agriculture outcomes indicated that although the regional delivery model is effective, there is still a lot of potential to be realised. The evaluation involved a desk top review of regional plans and investment s ....

Factors affecting rural landholders' adaptation to cliate change: Insights from formal institutions and communities of practice

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: CM Raymond, GM Robinson
  • Journal Name: Global Environmental Change
  • Journal Number: 23:1
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: South Australia

This study explores the factors affecting rural landholders’ adaptation to climate change from the perspectives of formal institutions and communities of practice. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with formal institutions (e.g. South Australian government agencies) and communities of practice (e.g. farm systems groups) within two natur ....

Factors Influencing Australian Agricultural Workers' Self-efficacy Using Chemicals in the Workplace

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Blackman, Ian R, RN, BEd, GradDip(HlthCouns), M
  • Journal Name: Workplace Health & Safety
  • Journal Number: 60.11
  • Publisher: SLACK INCORPORATED
  • Published Location: United States
  • ISBN: 21650799
  • Country: Australia

A hypothetical model was formulated to explore which factors can simultaneously influence the self-reported ability of agricultural employees to embrace chemical safety practices. Eight variables were considered in the study, including the employees' gender, age, duration of current employment status, and whether they were employed full-time or p ....

Factors motivating farmers to adopt different agrifood systems: A case study of two rural communities in Greece

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Marios Koutsoukos, Olga Iakovidou
  • Journal Name: Rural Society
  • Journal Number: Vol. 23 No.1
  • Publisher: eContent Management Pty Ltd
  • Published Location: Maleny, Qld.
  • ISBN: 1037-1656
  • Country: Greece

The main objective of this case study is to facilitate the understanding of the factors which motivate farmers to adopt different agrifood production systems. More specifically, the study focuses on researching farmers' motivations, attitudes and problems, concerning the adoption of conventional and organic farming in two rural communities in Gre ....

Family Farms Are Still Around: Time to Invert the Old Agrarian Question

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: Brookfield, Harold
  • Journal Name: Geography Compass
  • Journal Number: Vol.2, No.1
  • Country: Australia

Family farming is far from dead, in either the developed or developing countries. Family farms need to be qualitatively defined, with both family management and substantial labour input being central elements. The 'agrarian question' has been largely about their disappearance and replacement by capitalist farms, or subsumption  ....

Far West Regional Action Plan

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: NSW Government, Department of Premier and Cabinet
  • Publisher: New South Wales Government
  • Published Location: Sydney, NSW
  • ISBN: 978-0-7313-5435-5
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

The NSW Government is fulfilling a new agenda to deliver integrated strategic planning for land use, transport and infrastructure investment, backed up by rigorous financial management and is committed to partnering with communities, including aboriginal communities to improve social and economic outcomes. The long term strategies will align to N ....

Farm performance: identifying the top performing regions of Australia.

  • Year: 2000
  • Author: Chapman, Lisa; Beare, Stephen; Neeman, Teresa
  • Journal Name: Australian Commodities
  • Journal Number: Vol.7, No.3
  • Country: Australia

Regional measures of longer term farm performance are examined. Report Locationhttp://adl.brs.gov.au/data/warehouse/pe_abarebrs99000561/PR11738.pdf ....

Farm tourism experiences in travel reviews: A cross-comparison of three alternative methods for data analysis

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Capriello, Antonella; Mason, Peyton R; Davis, Boyd; Crotts, John C
  • Journal Name: Journal of Business Research
  • Journal Number: 66.6
  • Publisher: Elsevier Sequoia S.A.
  • Published Location: Netherlands
  • ISBN: 01482963
  • Country: Australia, Italy, United Kingdom, United States

This paper demonstrates three alternative approaches for mining consumer sentiment from large amounts of qualitative data found in online travel reviews. Manual content coding, corpus-based semantic analysis, and stance-shift analysis represent methods varying greatly in both process and output. For illustration purposes, they are applied in an e ....

Farmdiversification into tourism – Implications for social identity?

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Brandth, Berit; Haugen, Marit S.
  • Journal Name: Journal of Rural Studies
  • Journal Number: Vol.27, No.1
  • Country: Norway

This article deals with how diversification and transformation of farming into tourism may influence the social identity of farmers. Based on a study of 19 farms run by couples engaged with agritourism, it shows how the development of tourism on the farms can be understood in a perspective of repeasantization; and how the couples draw on their fa ....

Farmer’s markets: the fresh new link in the food chain

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: J Adams
  • Journal Name: Farm Policy Journal
  • Journal Number: Vol. 10 No. 1
  • Publisher: Australian Farm Institute
  • Published Location: Surry Hills
  • ISBN: 1449-8812
  • Country: Australia

Jane Adams is the principal of Jane Adams Communications a Sydney-based marketing consultancy specialising in food, wine, and regional and urban community development projects. Since 1998 Jane has pursued a vital personal interest in farmers’ markets, a significant driver of economic development and food marketing in regional Australia. She is ....

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