The future for Australian horticulture is buoyant but taking advantage of the opportunities is
likely to be compromised by the shortage of professionals in the sector. The levels of …

While the calm waters metaphor might explain the changes navigated by Australian
agricultural education through most of its history, the last 20 or so years have been very …

The focus of this chapter is towards the changing extension climate surrounding the
horticultural industry and the implications for horticultural extension now and into the future …

Horticultural knowledge and skills training have been with humankind for some 10,000 to
20,000 years. With permanent settlement and rising wealth and trade, horticulture products …

The issue of attracting the next generation of horticulturists to the profession has been
regularly addressed by ISHS on many levels. This includes the pages of Chronica …

In recent years horticulture has been a rapidly expanding industry in Australia and New
Zealand, with an increase in the value of both the production and lifestyle sectors. In …

Since the mid to late 1980s there has been a decline, for a range of reasons, in
undergraduate student numbers and programmes that target postharvest horticulture and …

Both urban and national park agencies have great potential to transform and enrich our
cities as well as the national estate. The role and responsibilities of these agencies differ in …

Electronic resource materials (elesources), such as plant databases, computeraided
learning and web-based materials, are widely used to support plant materials studies in …

The lifestyle horticulture industry can best be described as a “living green industry”. It
involves the production, sale, management and maintenance of plants used for …