Climate change threats to family farmers' sense of place and mental wellbeing: A case study from the Western Australian Wheatbelt

NR Ellis, GA Albrecht - Social science & medicine, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract 'Sense of place'has become a central concept in the analysis of the cultural,
personal and mental health risks posed by a changing climate. However, such place-related …

Climate change impacts and farm-level adaptation: Economic analysis of a mixed cropping–livestock system

T Thamo, D Addai, DJ Pannell, MJ Robertson… - Agricultural …, 2017 - Elsevier
The effects of climate change on agricultural profitability depend not just on changes in
production, but also on how farming systems are adapted to suit the new climatic conditions …

A simple and parsimonious generalised additive model for predicting wheat yield in a decision support tool

K Chen, RA O'Leary, FH Evans - Agricultural Systems, 2019 - Elsevier
Yield prediction is a major determinant of many management decisions for crop production.
Farmers and their advisors want user-friendly decision support tools for predicting yield …

Modelling the effects of climate change on the profitability of Australian farms

N Hughes, M Lu, WY Soh, K Lawson - Climatic Change, 2022 - Springer
Recent shifts in the Australian climate including both higher temperatures and lower winter
rainfall have had significant effects on the agriculture sector. Despite these recent trends …

The challenges in lifetime prediction of oxodegradable polyolefin and biodegradable polymer films

MAL Nikolić, E Gauthier, JM Colwell, P Halley… - Polymer Degradation …, 2017 - Elsevier
The service lifetime of polymer films is controlled by the chemical reactions leading to chain
scission and the mediating environmental factors. For application as agricultural cropping …

Agriculture's carbon neutral challenge: The case of Western Australia

R Kingwell - Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Agriculture is being encouraged to become carbon neutral, and agricultural land is being
touted as a source of carbon sequestration. Yet making agricultural regions locally carbon …

How training and innovation link to farm performance: a structural equation analysis

V Xayavong, R Kingwell, N Islam - Australian Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The complexity of modern farm management places great demands on the skill, knowledge
and capability of farm managers and their families. Keeping abreast of emerging …

Assessing the capacity of Australian broadacre mixed farmers to adapt to climate change: Identifying constraints and opportunities

PR Brown, KL Bridle, SJ Crimp - Agricultural Systems, 2016 - Elsevier
Farmers are continually striving to adapt to Australia's highly variable climate. As a function
of global warming, future climatic conditions will present further challenges, but may also …

Research priorities and best practices for managing climate risk and climate change adaptation in Australian agriculture

DA George, JF Clewett, D Lloyd… - Australasian Journal …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The challenges of climate change adaptation in agriculture are examined through the lens of
priorities for research, and the use of best management practices (BMPs) to better manage …

The impact of water ownership and water market trade strategy on Australian irrigators' farm viability

SA Wheeler, A Zuo, N Hughes - Agricultural Systems, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Reforms in the Murray-Darling Basin over the past several decades have led to well
developed water entitlement and allocation markets. Irrigators now use a diversity of water …