Climate change $ provide opportunities for farmers
By Eliza Wood ABC Rural The Federal Government’s focus on climate change adaption will help Tasmanian farmers in need of financial support, according to the Rural Financial Counselling Service....
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Climate change boosts odds of extreme weather: report
ABC Radio Australia Dry times ahead?... a farmer on his drought-stricken land in Parkes, NSW. (Credit: Getty Images) Severe droughts, floods and heat waves rocked the world last year as greenhouse gas...
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ABC Rural The indicators for another El Nino weather pattern in Australia are strengthening. El Nino is usually associated with a drier spring and summer and warmer temperatures. However climate...
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Gates Foundation grants boost farming research
by Anna Vidot and Neroli Roocke ABC Rural Ruben Echeverria, director, International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) (Neil Palmer, CIAT) A large investment from the Bill and Melinda Gates...
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Opposition claims Australian farmers could be locked out of Europe’s carbon...
By Anna Vidot ABC Rural A carbon farming project - land regeneration at Cheela Plains, WA. (WA Department of Agriculture and food) The Federal Opposition wants the Government to clarify whether it’s...
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Global warming threatens Qld agriculture sector: report
By Sharnie Kim ABC News The Climate Change Commission says Queensland’s economy is particularly vulnerable to the effects of global warming. It says rising temperatures and changing weather patterns...
View ArticleWorkshop considers climate change adaptable crops
ABC News Agricultural experts from across the Asia-Pacific region are meeting in Western Australia this week in an effort to develop new varieties of crop that are adaptable to climate change....
View ArticleClimate forum in Melbourne
By Peter Hemphill The Weekly Times THE Birchip Cropping Group is taking agriculture to the heart of Melbourne. The research group is holding a climate change forum at the Melbourne Town Hall. Moderated...
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The Rural Year in Review: 2012
By Anna Vidot and ABC rural reporters ABC rural The sale of Cubbie Station to a majority Chinese-Japanese textile consortium caused tensions within the Federal Opposition, and put the debate over...
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