The Liverpool Plains catchment faces a number of natural resource issues including dryland salinity, which has been attributed to removal of native vegetation, an increase in rainfall and the use of long fallow cropping systems. Opportunity cropping, where a crop is sown once the soil profile...

In this paper, a bioeconomic model is used to investigate possible externalities imposed by forestry on giant-clam farming in Solomon Islands. This is of economic interest due to the rapid expansion of forestry in that country and the potential for mariculture to become an important source of...

Agroforestry can help in the battle to control global warming by sequestering atmospheric CO2. Most attention so far has been on the carbon sequestered in trees, but soils can also contain considerable amounts of carbon, some of which is released upon harvest. There has been little...

Giant clams offer small holders throughout the Indo-Pacific with good prospects for commercial culture to satisfy their increasing dependence on the cash economy. Two species appear promising for an emerging village-based export industry in Solomon Islands. These species are Tridacna crocea, the...

Environmental weeds are plants that invade natural ecosystems and are considered to be a serious threat to nature conservation. Environmental weeds have been implicated in the extinction of several indigenous plant species, and they also threaten ecosystem stability and functional complexity....

The emission of greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide, and the consequent potential for climate change are the focus of increasing international concern. Eventually, an international agreement will likely be enacted to reduce greenhouse gas emission levels and assign rules for emission...

Precision farming has the potential to increase farm productivity, lower input costs and increase expected returns. Despite these potential benefits, the adoption of precision farming technology in Australia has been relatively slow. One of the reasons for this is the lack of information...

One of the outcomes of the merger of the Farm Management Society of Central South Australia and AARES was a project to record the history of the Australian Farm Management Society. As part of this project it was decided to develop a bibliography of Australian Farm Management Research and...

In their 1982 publication ‘Lessons from the Ord’ Davidson and Graham-Taylor exposed the lack of information and the prevalence of political agendas in far-reaching regional development decisions in northern Australia during the 1960s. This paper revisits regional development issues in...

In the main, Australian agricultural economics has been in the background in the recent trend toward convergence of research and farming practice which has become known as Farming Systems Research (FSR). However, the inherent importance of good economic performance of farms suggests that FSR...