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FPJ1902 – Lyons, B & De Daunton, F (2022), Recruitment and retention of a rural and regional workforce: a regional development perspective

Published 25 Aug 2022

Labour and skill shortages are often detrimental to adaptive capacity, resilience, and competitiveness of regional communities; yet most Australian regions are at full or underemployment. Solutions aimed at tackling agricultural workforce recruitment and retention must consider some key factors, for example: taking a regional or place-based (rather than sector-based) approach…
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FPJ1902 – Pratley, J et al. (2022), The employer of choice or a sector without workforce?

Published 25 Aug 2022

Australian agriculture is at the crossroads – charging ahead towards a goal of $100 billion GVP by 2030 but compromised by its limited ability to find a suitable workforce. The pandemic experience of 2020 onwards effectively terminated agriculture’s itinerant worker program of international labour, and the availability of domestic qualified…
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FPJ1902 – Cosby, A et al. (2022), The future agricultural workforce – is the next generation aware of the abundance of opportunities?

Published 25 Aug 2022

Australian school-aged students represent both the future agricultural workforce and next-generation consumer. To ensure students are best placed for future career and purchasing decisions, adequate knowledge of agriculture is essential.  The current research explores the agricultural knowledge of primary and secondary school students, including a discussion of how factors such…
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FPJ1902 – McDonald, N et al. (2022), Career development and agriculture: we don’t need a marketing campaign

Published 25 Aug 2022

The National Agriculture Workforce Strategy is an essential policy platform to improve attraction and retention of the agricultural workforce; however, the practical challenge is to translate its bold policy recommendations into initiatives that influence people’s career explorations, decision-making, choices, and actions. Generating public awareness and knowledge about agriculture is one…
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Winter 2022: Securing agriculture’s future workforce

Published 25 Aug 2022

In an era of historic low unemployment, labour shortages are endemic across the economy. Agriculture, which has traditionally struggled with attracting its required workforce, has been further impacted by pandemic-enforced restrictions to seasonal and overseas labour. The industry must redouble its efforts to be competitive in an increasingly tight job…
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Stronger ag sector, stronger regions

Published 28 Oct 2021

This paper considers how the agriculture sector can leverage stimulatory regional investment to ensure enduring economic stability and social benefits by establishing a virtuous cycle of beneficial impacts. A strong agricultural sector, availability of regional jobs and financial capital, and improved regional liveability are not only linked but interdependent. While…
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