Broadacre farmers adapting to a changing climate

Ross Kingwell; Lucy Anderton; Nazrul Islam; Vilaphonh Xayavong; Angela Wardell-Johnson; David Feldman; Jane Speijers

doi:10.1002/9781118845028.ch15

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Broadacre farmers adapting to a changing climate

Ross Kingwell, Lucy Anderton, Nazrul Islam, Vilaphonh Xayavong, Angela Wardell-Johnson, David Feldman and Jane Speijers

Applied Studies in Climate Adaptation, pp.130-138

John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118845028.ch15

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broadacre farming

changing climate

farm businesses

south-western Australia

Broadacre farm businesses in southern Australia are large mixed-enterprise dryland farms. This chapter reports on a study that tracked 249 farm businesses over a recent decade (2002-2011) in southwestern Australia. This region has experienced a warming, drying trend in its climate in recent decades. The chapter outlines these climatic trends and then draws on analyses of the farm data to answer two questions. 1. What characteristics of farm businesses and farm managers have allowed them to prosper during this period of climate adversity? 2. What adaptation strategies appear to have been successful in combating the changing climate? Broadacre farmers in south-western Australia are experiencing a drying and warming trend in their climate. Farmers' increased dependence on wheat growing as a principal source of farm income was found to be a sensible adaptation strategy.

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Title: Broadacre farmers adapting to a changing climate
Authors: Ross Kingwell (Author) - University of Western Australia
Lucy Anderton (Author) - Department of Agriculture and Food WA
Nazrul Islam (Author) - Department of Agriculture and Food WA
Vilaphonh Xayavong (Author) - Department of Agriculture and Food WA
Angela Wardell-Johnson (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Business
David Feldman (Author) - Department of Agriculture and Food WA
Jane Speijers (Author) - Department of Agriculture and Food WA
Contributors: J P Palutikof (Editor)
S L Boulter (Editor)
J Barnett (Editor)
D Rissik (Editor)
Publication details: Applied Studies in Climate Adaptation, pp.130-138
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Date published: 2015
DOI: 10.1002/9781118845028.ch15
ISBN: 9781118845011
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99448759702621
Output Type: Book chapter

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