Drivers of practice change in land management in Australian agriculture
by
 
ECKER Saan Dr

Title
Drivers of practice change in land management in Australian agriculture

Publication Date
19/12/2012

Description
This report has been prepared for Sustainable Resource management division, Department of Agriculture, Canberra. This report presents the outcomes of a national survey of farm managers, undertaken in 2010-11 as a supplementary survey to the ABARES farm survey, which assessed key influences on the uptake of sustainable land management practices. The survey was designed to provide further detail on key influences determined through the first stage of the project which involved workshops with practice change experts, farmers and extension providers. Survey results showed that motivations for the uptake of land management practices included a mix of financial, environmental and personal motivations. Availability of support was frequently a secondary consideration to other motivations, supporting decision making theories that suggest support is an enabler of change, related to increasing capacity once the decision to adopt has been made. The survey also determined levels of awareness of and participation in natural resource management programs, group membership and the types of activities from which farmers obtain land management practice information

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Resource URL
1027399

Publisher
ABARES : Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences : Department of Agriculture

Author
ECKER Saan Dr
 
THOMPSON Lyndal-Joy
 
KANCANS Robert
 
STENEKES Nyree
 
MALLAWAARACHCHI Thilak

Right Management
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Other constraints: All material in this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence, save for content supplied by third parties, logos and the Commonwealth Coat of Arms
 
Other constraints: This publication (and any material sourced from it) should be attributed as: Ecker, S, Thompson, L-J, Kancan, R, Stenekes, N and Mallawaarachichi, T 2012, Drivers of practice change in land management in Australia, ABARES report to client prepared for Sustainable Resource Management Division, Department of Agriculture, Canberra, December. CC BY 3.0

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