AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
About My Region - profiles of agricultural, forestry and fisheries industries by regions of Australia April 2015

ABARES has produced a series of individual profiles of the agricultural, forestry and fisheries industries for 48 regions around Australia, together with 8 state and territory profiles. The regions are based on boundaries set by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Each regional profile presents an overview of the agriculture, fisheries and forestry sectors in the region and the recent financial performance of the broadacre and, where relevant, dairy and vegetable industries. 

 About My Region  consists of the 56 profiles and a web site providing access. The web site contains a list of regions, organised by state that link to the profiles. 

Tags: AGRICULTURE, AGRICULTURE Crops, AGRICULTURE Horticulture, AGRICULTURE Irrigation, AGRICULTURE Livestock, FISHERIES, FORESTS Agroforestry, FORESTS Natural, FORESTS Plantation, Farming, INDUSTRY, INDUSTRY Primary, LAND Use, agriculture, employment, farms, financial performance, fisheries, forestry, overview, primary industry farms, production, regional, value
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
About My Region - profiles of agricultural, forestry and fisheries industries by regions of Australia March 2015

ABARES has produced a series of individual profiles of the agricultural, forestry and fisheries industries for 48 regions around Australia, together with 8 state and territory profiles. The regions are based on boundaries set by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Each regional profile presents an overview of the agriculture, fisheries and forestry sectors in the region and the recent financial performance of the broadacre and, where relevant, dairy and vegetable industries. 

 About My Region  consists of the 56 profiles and a web site providing access. The web site contains a list of regions, organised by state that link to the profiles.

Tags: AGRICULTURE, AGRICULTURE Crops, AGRICULTURE Horticulture, AGRICULTURE Irrigation, AGRICULTURE Livestock, FISHERIES, FISHERIES Marine, FORESTS, FORESTS Agroforestry, FORESTS Natural, Farming, INDUSTRY, INDUSTRY Primary, LAND Use, agriculture, employment, farms, financial performance, fisheries, forestry, overview, primary industry farms, production, regional, value
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
About My Region - profiles of agricultural, forestry and fisheries industries by regions of Australia December 2014

ABARES has produced a series of individual profiles of the agricultural, forestry and fisheries industries for 48 regions around Australia, together with 8 state and territory profiles. The regions are based on boundaries set by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Each regional profile presents an overview of the agriculture, fisheries and forestry sectors in the region and the recent financial performance of the broadacre and, where relevant, dairy industries. 

 About My Region  consists of the 56 profiles and a web site providing access. The web site contains: • a map allowing users to navigate to an area of interest and select to open the associated regional profile, and 
• a list of regions, organised by state that also link to the profiles. 


Tags: AGRICULTURE, AGRICULTURE Crops, AGRICULTURE Horticulture, AGRICULTURE Irrigation, AGRICULTURE Livestock, FISHERIES, FISHERIES Marine, FORESTS, FORESTS Agroforestry, FORESTS Natural, FORESTS Plantation, Farming, INDUSTRY, INDUSTRY Primary, agriculture, employment, farms, financial performance, fisheries, forestry, overview, primary industry farms, production, regional, value
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Rural research, development and extension investment in Australia

Overview  
 Research, development and extension (RD&E) is central to the competitiveness of Australia's agriculture industry. Growth in investment pushed the value of RD&E funding in Australia to $3.3 billion in 2014-15. Funding for rural R&D increased from $2.6 billion ten years before, in real terms. This includes public and private investment related to primary production, sustainable resource use, agricultural inputs and the processing sector. 


Key Issues 
 Public sector delivering the R&D building blocks  

• The public sector remains the largest overall source of rural R&D funding. Public funding for rural R&D increased from $1.4 billion to $1.54 billion (in real terms). This growth was driven by growth in funding from the Australian Government and universities, which offset a decline in funding from the state and territory governments. The public sector plays an important role in funding R&D particularly longer-term fundamental research. 

 Private sector funding boosting R&D investment  

• The private sector funding grew strongly over the ten years examined and now plays a greater role in funding rural R&D. Total private R&D funding increased from $912 million in 2005-06 to $1.46 billion in 2014-15 in real terms. Greater private funding stemmed from private firms increasing investment in their own R&D, with slower growth in contributions to the rural Research and Development Corporations (RDCs). 

 Based on recent trends in Australia and internationally, the private sector has the potential to play a greater role in Australian R&D investment. The private sector concentres on marketable technologies like those related to seeds or chemicals that are more likely to generate additional profits. However, growth in private sector investment is not guaranteed and will depend on both the expected return on R&D investment and the international competitiveness of our R&D providers. 

 Extending the ideas  

• Getting innovations out of the laboratory and in to the field and factory is also essential to lift producer efficiency. Total rural extension funding is estimated at $316 million in 2014-15. Just under half of this funding was provided by the private sector through farm advisors to boost farm profitability. 


Tags: Australian, Economy, R and D, agricultural, agriculture, expenditure, extension, research and development
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
A manual for measuring total factor productivity in Australian agriculture

This report describes a newly proposed method and dataset used by ABARES to measure output, input and total factor productivity in the Australian agriculture industry. We apply recently-developed statistical methods to a novel dataset, compiled from Australia's national account statistics and farm surveys. 

 The results show agricultural productivity grew at 2.0 per cent a year between 1948-49 and 2013-14. This work provides a unique measure of the productivity performance of Australia's agriculture industry over time, and thereby provides insight into trends in farm performance and the effects of policy reforms.

Tags: AGRICULTURE, Farming, production accounts for agriculture, total factor productivty
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Land use information for Australia


Land use information shows how we use the landscape - whether that is for food production, forestry, nature conservation, water storage or urban development. ABARES with its Australian Collaborative Land Use and Management Program (ACLUMP) partners have produced a brochure to promote the availability and application of its land use information products. This authoritative land use mapping is available at both the catchment and national scale. 

 ACLUMP is a consortium of Australian, state and territory government partners which deliver nationally consistent land use mapping underpinned by common technical standards. 






Tags: ACLUMP, AGRICULTURE, Australia, Australian Collaborative Land Use and Management Program, Farming, LAND Use, agriculture mapping, catchment scale, information, land, land survey, land use, land use classification, land use mapping, land use maps, mapping, national scale
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Compendium of five ABARES briefing notes relevant to Leadbeater's possum

Overview  
 Leadbeater's possum  Gymnobelideus leadbeateri  is a listed threatened species found mainly in montane ash and snowgum forests in the Central Highlands of Victoria, with a small occurrence in swamp forests in Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve. Threats to the species include wildfire, loss of hollow-bearing trees, and the harvesting of native forests. As a consequence, the species is a focus of sustainable forest management. 

 The species was nominated for re-listing as Critically Endangered under the  Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act  (EPBC Act) in 2013, from its previous category of endangered, with comments on the nomination requested by January 2014. Its listing category was raised from Endangered to Critically Endangered in May 2015, based on the recommendation of the Threatened Species Scientific Committee. An updated Draft Recovery Plan for the species was then prepared with input from stakeholders. 

 Over the period from 2013 to 2017, ABARES prepared briefing notes regarding the listing, conservation, recovery and management of Leadbeater's possum and the related issue of fire and forest harvesting. This publication brings together a series of these briefing notes. 

 The briefing notes are presented as written at the dates indicated, except that occasional minor or typographical errors have been corrected, URLs updated, intra- and inter-departmental references removed, and footnotes now include clarifying amendments. The briefing notes are individually paginated. 

Tags: Central Highlands, FAUNA, FAUNA Native, Farming, Gymnobelideus leadbeateri, Leadbeater possum, advice, bearing, conservation, fire, harvesting, hollow, hollow bearing, recovery plan, timber, tree, trees
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Irrigated agriculture in the Murray-Darling Basin: an economic survey of irrigators, 2013-14 to 2015-16

This web-report presents the results of analysis of farm financial and physical performance data collected from irrigation farms in the Murray-Darling Basin over the period 2013-14 to 2015-16. The results in this reports include key farm performance measures, water trading, farm investment, and irrigation technologies for rice, cotton, dairy, grape and horticulture farms. 

 The web-reports draw on data from the ABARES annual Murray-Darling Basin Irrigation Survey. This survey has been conducted by ABARES since 2006-07 and provides government and industry stakeholders with important data for analysing and monitoring changes in irrigation industries in the Murray-Darling Basin. 

 The survey was funded by the Murray-Darling Basin Authority and the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources. 

Tags: AGRICULTURE, AGRICULTURE Irrigation, Farming, Murray-Darling Basin, farm, farm performance, irrigation, rice
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
lllegal logging regulation: analysis of regulated importers by business size


This report builds on previous work the Bureau undertook on the  Illegal Logging Prohibition Regulation 2012.  

 This report investigates differences in the characteristics of importers of regulated timber products for four different business size categories. ABARES also conducted sensitivity testing to examine the potential impact of changes to the Regulation's key eligibility criteria. 






Tags: FORESTS, Farming, analysis by size of business, brokers, forest trade, forestry, forestry trade data, illegal logging, illegal logging outreach programs, illegal logging prohibition act, illegal logging regulation, importers, international forestry, regulated timber products, suppliers, trade flows, wood products trade
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Tidal Dataset - CAMRIS - Lowest Astronomical Tide

This dataset contains maps showing the principal attributes of tides around the Australian coast. It has been derived from data published in the Australian National Tide Tables.

CAMRIS, standing for the Coastal and Marine Resources Information System, is a small-scale spatial analysis system developed in collaboration by several divisions of Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), as part of the CSIRO Coastal Zone Program.  CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology is the custodian of the 'coastal' subset of the Australian Resources Information System (ARIS).  Coastal ARIS became the core dataset of the CAMRIS project.  The Coastal ARIS database was developed from a coastal inventory developed by Galloway et al.  This inventory contained relatively large scale data including landform, geology, vegetation, soil, land use, climate and population information for each of 3027 3x10km sections around the coastline of mainland Australia and Tasmania, but excluding offshore islands.CC - Attribution (CC BY)
This data has been licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence. More information can be found at http://www.ausgoal.gov.au/creative-commons.

Tags: OCEANOGRAPHY Physical_Distribution, Offline Data
Organization: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Policy Innovation: New thinking. New skills. New tools.

Overview  
 Rapidly changing operating environments of government and their stakeholders threaten to outdate existing policy practices. Policymakers will need to adopt fresh ways of thinking, develop new skills and access innovative ideas. This will affect government policy making on issues affecting agriculture, fishing, forestry, water and rural communities more broadly. This report brings together a set of innovative ideas that collectively offer new thinking, new skills and new tools for policymakers both in the department and elsewhere. Innovation in policy and regulatory practice will help us continue to deliver outcomes for Australian agriculture and the community. The report reinforces the department's commitment to innovation as a core capability for the future. 

 Key Issues  
 The report comprises a wide range of findings resulting from a global scan of online and expert sources. The analysis reflects on issues - such as governance, risk and capability - that might affect the adoption of innovations within a government setting. 

 Report findings are classified into three emergent themes that are interdependent in nature: 
• Thinking in new ways is critical to improving policy practice. Innovative thinking considers knowledge to be socially created, rather than a set of hard, incontestable facts. 
• New skills in contemporary and innovative practices can increase the range and depth of existing public sector capabilities 
• New tools for policymakers can improve the overall policy process and provide innovative policy instruments for specific policy problems. 
 Innovation in government differs from private sector innovation, because these sectors vary considerably in their approach to risk, public accountability and managing success. 

Tags: Environment, adaptive governance, adaptive policy, agile, agriculture, behaviour, behavioural economics, capability, collaboration, collaborative governance, complex systems, complexity, crowdsourcing, data literacy, deliberative democracy, design-led tools, engagement, fail fast, foresighting, government, innovation, innovation adoption, innovation labs, innovation skills, new technologies, policy, policy cycle, policy governance, policy instruments, policy making, policy problem, policy process, policy research, policy think tank, policymaking, political research, regulation, social licence, social research, thinktank, wicked problems
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Irrigated agriculture in the Murray-Darling Basin: an economic survey of irrigators, 2012-13 to 2014-15

Irrigated agriculture in the Murray-Darling Basin: an economic survey of irrigators 2012-13 to 2014-15 presents key farm performance measures for irrigated horticulture, dairy, cotton and rice farms in the Basin, including data on water trading and use of irrigation technologies and with an emphasis on results from 2012-13 to 2014-15. 

 ABARES has conducted surveys of irrigation farms in selected industries and regions in the Murray-Darling Basin since 2006-07. The Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) funded this latest survey. 

 The first three survey years (2006-07 to 2009-10) were severely affected by drought, with record low inflows to river systems and low irrigation water allocations. Incomes of horticulture, dairy, rice and cotton farms were relatively low throughout this period. 

 Average farm cash incomes from 2010-11 onwards were mostly higher than in the first three survey years as seasonal conditions improved and water allocations increased. 

 Water trading was an important tool for irrigators to manage low water allocations during severe drought, particularly between 2006-07 and 2008-09. The survey results show the proportion of farms trading water allocations rose from 2006-07 to 2008-09, then declined until 2010-11 as water supplies became more plentiful after the drought ended. 

Tags: AGRICULTURE, Farming, Murray-Darling Basin, farm, farm performance, irrigation
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Horticulture farms in the Murray-Darling Basin 2012-13 to 2014-15

Horticulture farms in the Murray-Darling Basin  presents key farm performance measures for irrigated citrus, pome and stone fruit growing farms in the Basin, including data on water trading and use of irrigation technologies, with an emphasis on results from 2012-13 to 2014-15. 

 ABARES has conducted surveys of irrigation farms in selected industries and regions in the Murray-Darling Basin since 2006-07. The Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) funded this latest survey. 

 This report focuses on citrus, pome fruit and stone fruit growing farms in the southern Murray-Darling Basin. The Basin accounts for about three-quarters of Australia's citrus, pome fruit and stone fruit production with a large percentage of these crops grown in the southern Basin. 

 Average farm cash income for citrus farms increased to around $90 000 in 2013-14 and then declined to around $72 000 in 2014-15. Pome fruit and stone fruit growers achieved average farm cash incomes of around $108 000 and $75 000 in 2013-14 and 2014-15, respectively. 

 In 2014-15 the average rate of return (excluding capital appreciation) was 0.4 per cent for citrus growers and 0.7 per cent for pome and stone fruit growers. 

 An increasing proportion of citrus farms used drip/trickle systems and fewer farms used low-throw sprinklers. Other irrigation systems used by citrus growers included micro sprays, overhead sprinklers and flood/furrow irrigation. Low-throw sprinklers and drip/trickle irrigation were also the most commonly used systems on stone fruit farms. Pome fruit was irrigated using a range of systems, with the most popular systems being low-throw sprinklers, micro sprays and drip/trickle irrigation. 

 Few citrus growers traded water from 2010-11 to 2012-13, but around 54 per cent were net sellers of water in 2013-14. Most pome and stone fruit growers were non-traders in all years except 2007-08 and 2013-14. 

Tags: AGRICULTURE, AGRICULTURE Irrigation, Farming, Murray-Darling Basin, farm performance, horticulture, irrigation
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Horticulture farms in the Murray-Darling Basin

Overview  
Horticulture farms in the Murray-Darling Basin presents key farm performance measures for irrigated horticulture growing farms in the Basin, including data on water trading and use of irrigation technologies, with an emphasis on results from 2013-14 to 2015-16. 

 ABARES has conducted surveys of irrigation farms in selected industries and regions in the Murray-Darling Basin since 2006-07. The survey was funded by the Murray-Darling Basin Authority and the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources. 

 This report focuses on citrus, pome fruit and stone fruit growing farms in the southern Murray-Darling Basin. The Basin accounts for about three-quarters of Australia's citrus, pome fruit and stone fruit production with a large percentage of these crops grown in the southern Basin. 


Tags: AGRICULTURE, AGRICULTURE Irrigation, Farming, Murray-Darling Basin, farm, farm performance, horticulture, irrigation
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Productivity Commission FOI Disclosure Log

This dataset does not contain any resources hosted on data.gov.au. It provides a link to the location of the Productivity Commission Freedom of Information (FOI) disclosure log to aide in information and data discovery. You can find the [FOI Disclosure log here](http://www.pc.gov.au/about/governance/freedom-of-information/disclosure-log) and the Agency's [Information Publication Scheme here](http://www.pc.gov.au/about/governance/freedom-of-information).

The data.gov.au team is not responsible for the contents of the above linked pages.

Tags: foi log
Organization: Department of Finance
Ground cover monitoring for Australia - data update on the Monitor website October 2014

Ground cover monitoring for Australia data was updated on the  MONITOR  website October 2014 (http://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/monitor/Pages/default.aspx). The Department of Agriculture has invested in the application of satellite imagery to monitor ground cover for Australia. This is a collaborative partnership with CSIRO, the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), all states and the Northern Territory. This data update includes maps and charts of median bare soil, green and non-green vegetation for Australia from 2000 to 2014 by month, season and year. This information enables regular monitoring of ground cover to assess environmental targets, such as those for the National Landcare Program, relating to soil erosion and land management in Australia. 

 The updated ground cover summary statistics and supporting metadata will also be available for download from the National Computational Infrastructure web page https://remote-sensing.nci.org.au/u39/public/html/modis/fractionalcover-metrics-abares/. 

Tags: AGRICULTURE, Farming, LAND, LAND Cover, agriculture, cropping, ground cover, land cover, remote sensing, soil condition
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences