Agriculture And Resilience In Australia S North

Author : Keith Noble,Tania Dennis,Sarah Larkins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789811383557

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Agriculture and Resilience in Australia’s North by Keith Noble,Tania Dennis,Sarah Larkins Pdf

This book examines the mechanisms and strategies farmers in North Australia adopt to manage the setbacks and challenges they face. This social research is based on farmers’ experiences, but also draws on the author’s own experience after his tropical fruit farm was destroyed by two Category 5 cyclones in five years. Through historical analysis, the book compares historic and contemporary aspirations for northern development, and discusses the influence of the built environment on individuals as well as access to health and other social services. Exploring the implications of individual resilience strategies for policy development within the broader context of northern development and evolving environmental governance, the book also highlights the fact that this is occurring in a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene. The book will provide a unique perspective and understanding to government, individuals and industries interested in northern Australia and its relationship to the world

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264680722

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Strengthening Agricultural Resilience in the Face of Multiple Risks by OECD Pdf

This report explores how countries can strengthen the resilience of their agricultural sectors to multiple risks. A shifting risk landscape in agriculture – due to increasing weather variability, natural hazards, pests and diseases, and market shocks – will require public and private actors to consider the risk landscape over the long term, place a greater emphasis on what can be done ex ante to reduce risk exposure and increase preparedness, and prioritise investments that build resilience capacities both on-farm and for the sector as a whole.

Author : The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789251345177

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Building agricultural resilience to natural hazard-induced disasters by The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

Natural hazard induced disasters (NHID), such as floods, droughts, severe storms, and animal pests and diseases have significant, widespread and long lasting impacts on agricultural sectors around the world. With climate change set to amplify many of these impacts, a “business as usual” approach to disaster risk management in agriculture cannot continue if we are to meet the challenges of agricultural productivity and sustainability growth, and sustainable development. Drawing from seven case studies – Chile, Italy, Japan, Namibia, New Zealand, Turkey and the United States – this joint OECD?FAO report argues for a new approach to building resilience to NHID in agriculture. It explores the policy measures, governance arrangements, on?farm strategies and other initiatives that countries are using to increase agricultural resilience to NHID, highlighting emerging good practices. It offers concrete recommendations on what more needs to be done to shift from coping with the impacts of disasters, to an ex ante approach that focuses on preventing and mitigating the impacts of disasters, helping the sector be better prepared to respond to disasters, and to adapt and transform in order to be better positioned for future disasters.

Author : Quentin Farmar-Bowers,Vaughan Higgins,Joanne Millar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781461444848

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Food Security in Australia by Quentin Farmar-Bowers,Vaughan Higgins,Joanne Millar Pdf

This book considers the ability and capacity of the food supply system in Australia to provide food security for the ever-increasing domestic and international population in the face of growing challenges in production, resource supply and failures within the food system itself. Although Australia is a net food exporting country, domestic food insecurity exists and will increase as food prices rise in the coming decades. An overview of the food supply system highlights the main challenges that are determining the future. Many of these challenges can be resolved by the Australian government, but others are in the hands of global governance to which Australia can only adapt. This book sheds light on the challenges and discusses the prospects for developing more sustainable and resilient future food systems in Australia. In addition, it covers food security and sovereignty issues under the heading of “food equity and access,” “food production, policy and trade,” and “impacts of land use planning on agriculture.” The unique features of the book include the following: • Most literature on food security pertains to developing countries. By way of contrast, this book explores food security in a developed nation (Australia) that seemingly should not have food security issues. The topics covered in the book are relevant to other developed nations with growing populations and resource management challenges. • The book chapters are written by specialists to paint a comprehensive picture of the political, social, economic and environmental issues that give rise to food insecurity, and the challenges these issues present to the security of the food system in coming decades. The overall organization of the book uses a theoretically informed and multi-disciplinary approach. This enables a critical and in-depth analysis of food security by outlining the key challenges as well as prospects for the development of more sustainable and resilient agri-food systems. • The three principal topics in the book are dealt with by a multi-disciplinary team of authors in a way that teases out diverse points of view illustrating the complexity of food security. Author disciplines include health and nutrition, agriculture, ethics, social science, law, and practitioners managing food aid programs. • The book shows how food security relates to many technical, social and moral issues in society and how it is possible to develop successful programs to improve food security.

Author : Zannie Langford
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781805393825

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Assembling Financialisation by Zannie Langford Pdf

Farmers, Indigenous organisations, government and private-sector intermediaries from remote Northern Australia often negotiate with private finance capital to gain funds for agricultural development.The concept of financialisation is used to explore the drivers and effects of agri-food restructuring in the area, while assemblage theory is applied to position local actors as potential sites of power in negotiating connections between local spaces and global finance. This book demonstrates that while financialisation is a useful signifier of patterns of global change, it is assembled by a diverse range of often contradictory work.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Agricultural resources
ISBN : 0858560216

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Potential Contribution of Research to Agricultural Development in Northern Australia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Chris Stokes,Mark Howden
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780643102057

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Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change by Chris Stokes,Mark Howden Pdf

Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change is a fundamental resource for primary industry professionals, land managers, policy makers, researchers and students involved in preparing Australia’s primary industries for the challenges and opportunities of climate change. More than 30 authors have contributed to this book, which moves beyond describing the causes and consequences of climate change to providing options for people to work towards adaptation action. Climate change implications and adaptation options are given for the key Australian primary industries of horticulture, forestry, grains, rice, sugarcane, cotton, viticulture, broadacre grazing, intensive livestock industries, marine fisheries, and aquaculture and water resources. Case studies demonstrate the options for each industry. Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change summarises updated climate change scenarios for Australia with the latest climate science. It includes chapters on socio-economic and institutional considerations for adapting to climate change, greenhouse gas emissions sources and sinks, as well as risks and priorities for the future.

Author : Reider Almas,Hugh Campbell
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781780523491

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Rethinking Agricultural Policy Regimes by Reider Almas,Hugh Campbell Pdf

Through international case studies, this book evaluates how various policy challenges are having an impact on specific agricultural policy regimes, and what future lessons might be learnt from key policy experiments around neoliberalism and multifunctionality.

Author : Australia. Parliament. House of Representatives. Standing Committee on Primary Industries and Resources,Dick Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 0642792917

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Farming the Future by Australia. Parliament. House of Representatives. Standing Committee on Primary Industries and Resources,Dick Adams Pdf

The Committee was required to inquire into and report upon: current and prospective adaptations to the impacts of climate change on agriculture and the potential impacts on downstream processing ; the role of government in augmenting the shift towards farming practices which promote resilience in the farm sector in the face of climate change, promoting research, extension and training which assists the farm sector to better adapt to climate change ; the role of rural research and development in assisting farmers to adapt to the impacts of climate change.

Author : Jeremy Russell-Smith,Glenn James,Howard Pedersen,Kamaljit K. Sangha
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780429895586

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Sustainable Land Sector Development in Northern Australia by Jeremy Russell-Smith,Glenn James,Howard Pedersen,Kamaljit K. Sangha Pdf

Key Features: Provides clear and authoritative recommendations for managing fire in ecological and social contexts Authors are all international leaders in their fields and include not only academics but also leaders of Indigenous communities Explains Indigenous cultural and knowledge systems to a degree that has rarely been accessible to lay and academic readers outside specialized disciplines like Anthropology Responds to growing need for new approaches to managing human-ecological systems that are in greater sympathy with Australia’s natural environments/climate, and value the knowledge of Indigenous people Timely for scholarly and interest groups intervention, as the Australian government is again looking to ‘develop the north' Sustainable Land Sector Development in Northern Australia sets out a vision for developing North Australia based on a culturally appropriate and ecologically sustainable land sector economy. This vision supports both Indigenous cultural responsibilities and aspirations, as well as enhancing enterprise opportunities for society as a whole. In the past, well-meaning if often misguided policy agendas have failed - and continue to fail - North Australians. This book helps breach that gap by acknowledging and harnessing Indigenous cultural strengths and knowledge systems for looking after the country and its people, as part of a smart, novel and diversified ecosystem services economy.

Author : Colleen Russell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-14
Category : Agricultural colonies
ISBN : 0992586003

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Showing the Way by Colleen Russell Pdf

Bridgetown, South West, Western Australia was Gazetted in 1868 and noted as "it will only be a small village". In 1885, a group of settlers were given permission to form an Agricultural Society and became the Registered Custodians of Memorial Land. Through their vision, passion and dedication, the Society, Town and surrounding settlement grew.Interwoven with historical accounts and personal stories, their strength influenced the growth of the Bridgetown community and the people it still represents today. The Society and the Town are so closely related; one story cannot be told without the other.

Author : Liz Harfull
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781761186974

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A Farming Life by Liz Harfull Pdf

Bestselling author Liz Harfull shares fascinating true stories of rural Australian women, showcasing the passion, tenacity and resilience required to make a life on the land. Making a living on the land in Australia can be tough at the best of times, but the last few years of seemingly endless droughts, floods and bushfires - not to mention a global pandemic - have made it even more difficult. A Farming Life shares the uplifting stories of women from six rural families as their resilience is tested by personal loss, illness, fractured relationships, natural disasters and the challenges that come with working in a traditionally male-dominated world. These women are all hands-on farmers - in fact, most are responsible for managing their own farms - and their defiance, tenacity and genuine humility shines through, as does their hope for the next generation of young women already lining up to follow in their footsteps. Skilfully woven together by veteran storyteller Liz Harfull, these accounts are heartwarming and powerful examples of resilience in action, at a time when many of us are searching for inspiration.

Author : Robyn Bartel,Louise Noble,Jacqueline Williams,Stephen Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351747493

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Water Policy, Imagination and Innovation by Robyn Bartel,Louise Noble,Jacqueline Williams,Stephen Harris Pdf

This book explores creative interdisciplinary and potentially transformative solutions to the current stalemate in contemporary water policy design. A more open policy conversation about water than exists at present is proposed – one that provides a space for the role of the imagination and is inclusive – of the arts and humanities, relevant stakeholders, including landholders and Indigenous peoples, as well as science, law and economics. Written for a wide audience, including practitioners and professional readers, as well as scholars and students, the book demonstrates the value of multiple disciplines, voices, perspectives, knowledges and different ways of relating to water. It provides a fresh and timely response to the urgent need for water policy that works to achieve sustainability, and may be better able to resolve complex environmental, social and cultural water issues. Utilising a broad range of evidentiary sources and case studies from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and elsewhere, the authors of this edited collection demonstrate how new ways of thinking and imagining water are not only possible but already practised, and growing in saliency and impact. The current dominance of narrower ways of conceptualising our relationship with water is critiqued, including market valuation and water privatisation, and more innovative alternatives are described, including those that recognise the importance of place-based stories and narratives, adopt traditional ecological knowledge and relational water appreciations, and apply cutting-edge behavioural and ecological systems science. The book highlights how innovative approaches drawing on a wide range of views may counter prevailing policy myopia, enable reflexive governance and transform water policy towards addressing water security questions and the broader challenges posed by the Anthropocene and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Author : L. 't Mannetje,R. M. Jones
Publisher : CABI
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0851999395

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Field and Laboratory Methods for Grassland and Animal Production Research by L. 't Mannetje,R. M. Jones Pdf

Considers a range of methods used by plant and animal production scientists to study grassland vegetation and animal performance. This volume replaces a previous title, ''Measurement of Grassland Vegetation and Animal Production'', published in 1978, but incorporates many new topics.

Author : Ludivine Petetin,Mary Dobbs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429994722

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Brexit and Agriculture by Ludivine Petetin,Mary Dobbs Pdf

Acknowledging the challenges and opportunities raised by Brexit for the agrifood supply chain and agricultural policies across the UK, this book provides the first in-depth analysis of agricultural policy developments across the UK’s four nations rooted in strong theoretical and practical underpinnings. Arguing that the four nations could be more ambitious in departing from the Common Agricultural Policy and extending beyond the ‘public money for public goods’ approach adopted across the UK, it critiques the core attributes of their policies with focuses including the debate over outcome-based schemes, governance mechanisms, impacts on farm diversity and path dependency on the Common Agricultural Policy and English approaches. It promotes a ‘resilient agriculture’ paradigm and utilises social-ecological services, net zero, agroecology and agri-food democracy as the main pathways to achieve this. In doing so, it scrutinises the evolving contextual, political and legal landscape within which devolved and UK agricultural policies are developing from a multilevel governance perspective, examining the implications of WTO law for the UK and its devolved administrations to determine environmental, food and animal welfare standards under the GATT, the SPS and TBT Agreements and financial support schemes under the Agreement on Agriculture. The book assesses the significance of the Northern Ireland Protocol, the Trade and Cooperation Agreement with the EU and other free trade agreements for standards across the UK and access to markets. From a domestic perspective, challenges to devolution and the stability of the Union are highlighted. Elements of unilateral recentralisation are visible via financing mechanisms, the UK Internal Market Act and the Agriculture Act. The book’s interdisciplinary nature makes it of interest to lawyers, political scientists, economists, human geographers and scientists, as well as policymakers, agricultural communities, civil society organisations and think tanks in the devolved administrations, the UK, the EU and beyond.