Climate variability and drought research in relation to Australian agriculture
- A Century's perspective on climate variability and impacts on agriculture.
- Atlas of near-global ENSO and climate variability since 1871
- CLIMARC - Computerising the Australian Climate Archives
- Effective implementation, adoption and utilisation of new climate results
- Evaluation of the National Climate Variability Program (NCVP)
- Further development and application of AUSTRALIAN RAINMAN to improve management of climate variability
- National Climate Variability R&D Program (NCVP)
- SILO - Agrometeorological information system
- Survey of agricultural climate research, development and services in Australia
- Using climatic data for agricultural decision making
- Air-sea exchange processes
- Can seasonal climate forecasting prevent degradation of Australia's grazing lands?
- Development and testing of climate models for seasonal prediction for Australia
- Development of improved seasonal climate forecast systems
- Improved climate prediction during El Niņo events
- Extended seasonal climate predictions using a dynamical climate model
- Expediting the Use of Scientific Drought/ Seasonal Climate Forecasts by Queensland Rural Producers.
- From oceans to farms: integrated management of climate variability
- Global Seasonal Climate Forecasts for Australian Environmental Outlooks
- Seasonal Climate Forecasting to Improve Industry Competitiveness
- Assessing and Forecasting Variability in Wheat Production in Western Australia.
- Can Decadal Climate Variability (DCV) impact on cropping systems management?
- Effects of Improved Climate Forecasting on Competitiveness in the International Grain Market
- Evaluating the role of seasonal climate forecasting in tactical management of cropping systems in north-east Australia
- Seasonal climate variability and crop yield forecasting
- Seasonal rainfall and winter crop yield forecasting for southern Australia
- The application of climate forecasts to crop management in northern Australia
D. Forecasting and studying streamflow
- Comparative evaluation of environmental flow assessment techniques
- Decision Support Systems for Improving Water Use Efficiency in the Northern Murray-Darling Basin
- Ecological basis for river habitat and in-stream flow management
- Integrating environmental and irrigation water allocation under uncertainty
- R&D opportunities for using seasonal climate forecasts in the Australian water industry
- Seasonal streamflow forecasts to improve management of water resources
- Spatial distribution of rainfall and storm movement (using remote sensing)
F. Drought Impacts - Assessing Exceptional Circumstances
G. Landcare - Limiting Land Degradation
- Determining rangeland response to drought and sheep grazing in the northern Mitchell grasslands
- Evaluation of the national Drought Landcare Program
- Evaluation of the risks of land and pasture degradation associated with drought
- Prevention of rangeland degradation during drought through zero grazing techniques
- Soil erosion rates on the Nullarbor plain using fallout radionuclides and remote sensing
- Adapting to climate change on the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, 1900-1990
- Australian farm families' experience of the drought in the 1990s: a sociological perspective
- Drought and the economic performance of agriculture
- Economic monitoring/forecasting of rural business
- Improving the communication of climate information to dairy farmers
- Learning from history: preventing future land and pasture degradation under climate change.
- Revaluing Rural Australia
- Seasonal climate information and farmers' risk assessment and decision making
- Strategic farm planning - by open learning
I. Managing Climate Variability - Pastures
- Coping with rainfall variability in tropical savannas
- Enhancing profits from poplar box country by tactical pasture management
- Estimating safe carrying capacities for grazing properties
- Evaluation of the impact of climate change on northern Australian grazing industries
- Exploiting drought opportunities: control of total grazing pressure of grasslands
- FEEDMAN - a pasture and crop decision support system
- Grazier-based profitable and sustainable strategies for managing climatic variability (DroughtPlan)
- Improved pasture management and beef production through parthenium weed control
- Management strategies to maximise opportunities for sustainable economic gain in chenopod shrublands
- Optimising phosphorus use in Victoria
- Pasture and forage systems (GRAZPLAN)
- Rangeland capability assessment in western Queensland
- Reclaiming and sustaining productivity of Queensland bluegrass downs
- Regeneration of drought-affected pastures
- Silage systems for beef production and drought feeding for northern Australia
- Strategies for maximising the persistence of perennial grasses through drought
- Strategies to cope with climatic variability in the perennial pasture zone of south-eastern Australia
J. Managing Climate Variability - Crops
- Adoption of grain legumes: the importance of risk
- Analysis of Cropping Systems in Northern NSW using Simulation Models
- Application of a crop model to examine the efficiency and sustainability of wheat farming in Western Australia
- Better management of climate variability within the agribusiness service sector
- Climate risk - options for managing frost risk in the eastern wheatbelt
- Decision support for climatic risk management in dryland crop production
- Developing and promoting systems for managing climatic and spatial risks in dryland crop production
- Developing database and knowledge-based resources for commercial advisers using the cropping systems simulator APSIM
- FARMSCAPE - Farmer-adviser-researcher monitoring, simulation, and communication for best dryland cropping practice
- Improved potential yield estimates for farmers and advisers
- Improving management of seasonal conditions for low rainfall crop production
- Modelling cropping systems to ensure greater water use and water use efficiency
- Managing the risks associated with early sowing of lupins
- Significance of early maturity in improving grain yield and water use efficiency of wheat in low rainfall environments
- Whopper Cropper - a data base and graphics interface to connect crop management advisors with the simulation capacity of APSIM
- Analysing Drought Strategies to Enhance Farm Financial Viability
- Farmer risk management under changing conditions
- Farmers training needs for managing climate risk
- Improved management of climate variability on Australian grain farms
- Innovative workshops to improve understanding of price and climate variability
- Insurance-based risk management for drought
L. Development Of Drought-Tolerant Species - Pastures
- Breed three cultivars of phalaris for acid soils, dry marginal areas and high rainfall zones
- Breeding improved perennial ryegrass for temperate pastures in Australia
- Hormonal responses of plants to drought
- Identifying persistent lucernes for the pastoral zone
- Plant genes involved in drought tolerance and other stress responses
- Stability of native pastures during drought
- The assessment of drought and pest tolerant pasture species in Tasmania - sheep production
- To investigate the use of perennial legumes as a means of controlling and reducing water tables in pasture/crop rotations
M. Development Of Drought-Tolerant Species - Crops
- Canola adapted to drought for low rainfall regions
- Comparative drought tolerance of tall and dwarf sunflowers
- Crop improvement of grain sorghum in Australia: a physiological assessment of the genetic variation in the staygreen character in sorghum
- Crop improvement of grain sorghum in Australia: core breeding
- Improving cropping systems with new cultivars of perennial lablab
- More Efficient Breeding of Drought Resistant Peanuts in India and Australia
- Navy bean breeding and varietal evaluation
- Productivity responses of asparagus to droughting in a tropical environment
- Selection for water use efficiency in food legumes
- Soybean improvement for eastern Australia: Component 1: New South Wales
- Soybean improvement for eastern Australia: Component 2: Queensland Department of Primary Industries
- Soybean improvement for eastern Australia, component 3: CSIRO Tropical Agriculture
- Sunflower germplasm enhancement for improved productivity under drought
- Transfer of drought tolerance from Triticum tauschii to wheat
- Wheat breeding for the Western Region
