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The Environment’s water is not Agriculture’s overdraft

Blog post prepared by Dr. David Adamson The Murray-Darling Basin Plan is based on the concept of ‘common property’ were a set of environmental rights are established and managed in the national good (economic, society & the environment).  The environments rights were purchased from farmers either: directly via market mechanisms (i.e. buy-back where rights were […]

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Prof Sarah Wheeler talks water on radio

Prof Sarah Wheeler, Associate Director of Research, Centre for Global Food and Resources at the University of Adelaide was interviewed by Amanda Vanstone on Radio National’s Counterpoint on 19 March 2018. “Fixing leaky pipes no way to save a river”. Economists are critical of the way federal government money has been spent on saving the […]

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Is the Basin Plan Over?

Blog post by Dr David Adamson, DECRA Fellow, Centre for Global Food and Resources Australia in many ways has an enviable position in regard to water reform. Australia has embraced reform and highlighted what can be done and what needs to be done. The Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) has been essentially a natural experiment in water […]

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MDBA Chair speaks to Water Security and Governance course

The Hon. Neil Andrew, AO former member for Wakefield in the federal Parliament and current Chair of the Murray–Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) was kind enough to speak to GFAB Masters students in the Water Security and Governance course this week. Neil became Chair of the MDBA in 2015, and many upstream water users were initially […]

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GFAR’s submission to the “Inquiry into water-use efficiency in Australian agriculture”

On 31 March 2017, the Centre for Global Food and Resources staff (Dr Adamson, Dr Loch, Associate Professor Wheeler, and Adjunct Professor Connor) made a submission to the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Water Resources, inquiry into water-use efficiency in Australian agriculture. The submission includes key comments and research that staff at the centre have […]

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Media Release: Survey of irrigator stress and water use behaviour

One of Australia’s biggest and most significant agricultural areas – the Murray-Darling Basin – will be the target of a new survey aimed at better understanding the range of pressures being experienced by irrigators, and the consequences of that stress. The survey is part of a major project at the University of Adelaide to gather […]

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