Australian farm groups demonstrating adaptive practices to minimise the impact of climate change on farm viability
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| WA West Midlands Group demonstration site | Harm van Rees and Alexandra Gartmann monitoring |
A national network of demonstration sites, coordinated by key farm groups (owned and driven by farmers) in each State working in conjunction with State Agencies and CSIRO, is examining new and alternative strategies for farmers in the Australian broadacre wheat/sheep zone to mitigate the negative effects and capitalise on the opportunities of climate change on their production systems.
The farm groups are uniquely situated to, not only demonstrate new practices, but also to bring awareness of the impacts of climate change and adaptations required to ensure continuing farm viability. Farm groups have direct access to other farmers, advisers, input suppliers and wider local communities.
A transect approach will be employed for the alignment of demonstration sites to ensure that the relative value of adaptation options can be compared across low to high rainfall regions. This approach will test a series of climate change adaptation options in experimental field conditions and enable the effective modeling of the outcomes of the demonstrations on farm income and risk management.
Victoria: Mallee Sustainable Farming Systems and BCG
SA: Ag Excellence Alliance (in SA the Ag Excellence Alliance will coordinate activities with the Minipa, Yorke and mid-North groups)
WA: WA Grower Group Alliance (in WA the Grower Group Alliance will coordinate activities with the West Midlands and the North East Farming Futures groups
NSW: Farm Link and the Central West - Condobolin groups
Tasmania: Southern Farming Systems (north midlands)
Queensland:Qld DEEDI will coordinate activities with the Chinchilla landcare group
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| NSW demonstration site hosted by Mallee Sustainable Farming. |
Newsletters produced by BCG can be accessed here:
Changing Climate Changing Practices Edition 1 – June 2010
Changing Climate Changing Practices Edition 2 – July 2010
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