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Spring 2020: Leveraging Australian agriculture’s competitive edge

Published 13 Oct 2020

Australian agriculture continues to depend on global markets for prosperity and growth. While our share of global agricultural markets has been declining, exports still remain a vital component of the growth story of Australian agriculture. This spring edition of the Farm Policy Journal contains four articles which explore how Australian agriculture remains relevant…

Competitive tensions

Published 9 Sep 2020

Articles about competition policy often tend to open with a statement along the lines of: Competition is central to the operation of markets, and fosters innovation, productivity and growth, all of which create wealth and reduce poverty. Even though that statement is definitive, it will be inevitably followed by a…

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February 2020 Insights

Published 1 Feb 2020

Over the past 30 years, Australian seafood industries have been devastated by a steady march of disease outbreaks, often with little or no warning. Each episode has been devastating, and all have starkly illustrated aquatic disease management’s primary challenge: the underwater world has no fences. Given the absence of effective…

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Autumn 2019: Disruptions in agricultural trade

Published 1 Mar 2019

Australian agriculture is trade dependent. Around 65% of Australia’s agricultural production is exported and if the sector is to achieve the National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) target of $100 billion of farmgate output it will mostly occur as a result of export growth. Yet there are many current disruptive factors to…

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Out & about

AFI staff regularly attend and present at conferences and forums around the country. These meetings provide fantastic opportunities to talk to the stakeholders of the Institute and get feedback on the issues that are front of mind in Australian agriculture. No amount of desk-based research can replace face-to-face interactions with…

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Managing farm land use conflicts

While land use conflict is an issue that is not specific to agriculture, it’s one with impacts that are particularly felt in the farming community. Farmers can suffer significant economic impacts from land use conflict, such as loss of productive land to buffers, implementation of remediation measures to mitigate neighbourhood…

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Biosecurity – looking back in order to look forward

The biosecurity risks to which Australia’s agricultural sector is exposed are in a state of flux. As the production environment evolves and trade arrangements morph, as tourism increases, climate change implications intensify and as supply chain dynamics become increasingly complex, biosecurity needs are changing markedly. Australia’s biosecurity system is complex…

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Current threats to our biosecurity

Melinee Leather and Paul Zalai give their views on current threats to our biosecurity, answering questions on: the largest current threat to Australia’s biosecurity; whether current policies are robust; and whether the broader industry and community are aware of the significance of biosecurity in protecting Australia’s food security. Paul Zalai:…

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