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Published 13 Jul 2022
Let’s face it, sometimes policy research and analysis can be a little dull. However, anyone with even a passing interest in agriculture could not describe the Australian agricultural policy environment of the last few years as dull. Initiatives aimed at addressing drought impacts, long-term sustainability, trade and supply chains have…
Published 25 May 2022
The growing interest and momentum surrounding the regenerative agriculture movement has generated considerable debate about motivations, definitions, stakeholders, and the role that scientific research plays. Amidst the sometimes-emotive debate there are some incontrovertible facts and drivers. The first of these is that most human activity is exploitative of the natural…
Published 12 Apr 2022
A pathway towards net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is practically impossible without environmental offsets of some kind. While there is now significant effort and investment in reducing GHG emissions at source, there will always be some emissions which are too difficult or too costly to reduce. The environmental impact…
Published 12 Apr 2022
The agricultural sector is often successful in winning the smaller battles it fights. It is a formidable industry lobby that excels at a tactical level but is failing at a strategic level. The biggest strategic failure is that the sector is not yet well-placed to deal with the dual crises…
Published 12 Apr 2022
Creating financial policy mechanisms that encourage farmers to sequester carbon in agricultural soils is widely seen as a useful policy response to combatting climate change. However, there are a number of challenges that make it difficult for such an approach to be effective and worthwhile. If a policy accounts well…
Published 12 Apr 2022
Nature-based offsetting of greenhouse gas emissions has the potential to be a multi-billion-dollar opportunity for Australia’s farmers. A thorough assessment of the opportunity and its challenges can help our farmers realis
Published 12 Apr 2022
Soil carbon increase is a worthwhile goal in farm-business management. It can improve ecosystem services, productivity resilience, and may help to diversify income streams. Barriers to increasing carbon are dependent more on practicable methods to increase the carbon while maintaining productivity and profitability, than by measurement. Australia has an advanced…
Published 6 Apr 2022
Interest in sustainability of agricultural and food systems is increasing at what feels like an exponential rate in market, social and regulatory environments. This increasing interest is being driven by the realisation that sustainability is not a nice-to-have, not a concept reserved for virtue-signalling. Rather, it is fundamental to the…
Published 7 Mar 2022
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Published 23 Feb 2022
First and foremost, the grains industry must recognise the existential threat posed by climate change to sectoral productivity and profitability as the primary driver for carbon neutrality. Compounding this fundamental threat, a failure to proactively move to net zero targets could see the industry ‘locked out’ of key trading markets…
Published 21 Dec 2021
When you are on the farm and in mobile range you are not alone, in fact you are never alone, as (they) know who you are and what you are doing, they even know what you are likely to do next. Who’s they? Well, let’s start with your mobile carrier,…