AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Future scenarios for the southern Murray-Darling Basin water market

Since the peak of the Millennium drought, the southern Murray-Darling Basin (sMDB) has seen large increases in nut and cotton plantings, decreases in water supply due to environmental water recovery and tighter limits on water trade between regions. These changes have raised concerns about how the water market might cope under drought conditions. 

 In this study, ABARES applies an economic model of the sMDB to simulate what would happen to the water market under a repeat of the Millennium drought, with current water demand, environmental water recovery, trade limits and carryover rules. These scenarios provide an indication of future water prices and trade patterns across the sMDB under a repeat of historical climate conditions (for the period 2002-03 to 2016-17). 

Key Issues 

• Modelling results suggest that under a repeat of historical conditions allocation water prices in the sMDB would rise no higher than the peaks observed during the previous drought. 
• Whilst demand for water has increased for cotton and almonds, this has been more than offset by reductions in demand in other industries particularly, grazing, dairy and rice. 
• Improvements in carryover rules will help to limit price rises under a repeat of the drought, with much larger volumes of water being stored between years. 
• Trade limits will likely be binding more often in the future, partly due to the changes in water demand. 
• While water price peaks are simulated to be no higher under a repeat of extreme drought conditions, they are higher on average, due in part to environmental water recovery. The modelling suggests a change in the distribution of prices, with fewer years of low prices.


Tags: AGRICULTURE, AGRICULTURE Irrigation, Farming, HUMAN ENVIRONMENT, HUMAN ENVIRONMENT Economics, INDUSTRY Primary, Murray-Darling Basin, WATER, WATER Rivers, WATER Supply, allocation price, entitlement price, environment, environmental water, groundwater, inter-regional trade, irrigation, irrigation activity, irrigation land use, natural resource management, southern Murray-Darling Basin, surface water, water, water access entitlement, water allocation, water entitlement, water market prices, water market scenarios, water markets, water modelling, water resources, water trade, water trade model
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Tasmania - CRA/RFA - Forests - National Estate - Flora Centres of Endemism

Endemic plants provide an important insight into the process of evolution of flora and are of direct relevance to National Estate criterion A1: Importance in the evolution of Australian flora, fauna, landscapes or climate.

In some cases, where concentrations of endemic taxa occur, the role of climatic refugia in speciation during periods of climate change becomes apparent. In other cases, endemism is high without any apparent link to refugia: biogeographic determinants such as terrestrial and oceanic climatic influences, soils and localised topographic variation may be the main controlling factors in these cases. 

The degree of endemism of flora is pronounced in Tasmania, a consequence of a variety of factors, such as Pleistocene glaciations and deglaciations and periodic isolation when sea-level fluctuations caused the closing of the land bridge across Bass Strait. More than 300 higher plant taxa are endemic in the region. Endemism is moderate at the generic level; for example, there are 10 endemic, mostly monotypic, angiosperm genera. Lower levels of endemism are seen in lichens, mosses and ferns. 

This database describes the centres of endemism of flora, i.e. areas where concentrations of exclusively Tasmanian flora species are found. 

Centres of endemic flora are coded with a unique number and the relevant National Estate value and criterion. The data are mapped at 1:500,000 scale.

This is an archived dataset jointly owned by the Commonwealth and the Tasmanian Governments under the Tasmania-Commonwealth Regional Forest Agreement (RFA) data agreement of 8th November 1997.This data is available to the public under licence from the Department as part of the Commonwealth Spatial Data Access and Pricing Policy.

Any reproduction of this dataset must carry the following statement:
Copyright Commonwealth of Australia and Tasmanian Government 1998.
Departmental Deed

Tags: Downloadable Data, ECOLOGY Habitat, FLORA, FLORA Native, FLORA_Distribution, FORESTS, FORESTS Natural, HERITAGE, HERITAGE Natural, VEGETATION, VEGETATION Floristic
Organization: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Farm share and price spread in Australia's sugar supply chain

Overview  
 This study uses a case study approach to demonstrate the potential to estimate farm shares and price spreads in Australia using a relatively simple methodology developed by the United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service. In this instance, the methodology has been applied to Australian sugar price data. 

 Key Points  
• The study demonstrates that data is available that allows an analysis of farm share and price spread for raw sugar exports and refined sugar sold at retail outlets. 
• The analysis shows that trends in farm shares of retail and export prices were relatively flat between 1984-85 and 2014-15. So too were trends in farm-to-retail and farm-to-export price spreads. 
• If it is assumed that the emergence of market power beyond the farm gate is likely to be reflected in changes in trends in farm share and price spread, then these results suggest that there has been no obvious change in market power within the sugar industry over this period. 


Tags: AGRICULTURE, AGRICULTURE statistics, Farming, competition, farm share, farm-to-retail-spread, food supply chain, sugar
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Fishery status reports 2018

Fishery status reports 2018  provides an independent evaluation of the biological and economic status of fish stocks managed solely or jointly by the Australian Government. 

 This 23rd edition of the Fishery status reports covers the biological status of 95 fish stocks across 22 fisheries, including those managed both solely and jointly by the by the Australian Government. The reports summarise the performance of these fisheries against the requirements of fisheries legislation and policy. 

 The fisheries assessed in the Fishery status reports 2018 generated an estimated gross value of production of $403 million in 2016-17, which is 13 per cent of Australia's total fisheries and aquaculture gross value of production of $3.1 billion. 

 The Fishery status reports form part of a suite of ABARES publications that aim to provide a comprehensive and multidimensional account of the trends and outlook for Australian fisheries. The Australian fisheries statistics reports provide annual updates of fisheries production and trade data.  Detailed analysis of the net economic returns of selected Commonwealth fisheries is provided in the annual Australian fisheries economic indicators report. 

Tags: Biota, Commonwealth fisheries, Economy, FISHERIES, FISHERIES Marine, FISHERIES production, FISHERIES statistics, Fishery status reports, GVP, INDUSTRY Primary, Oceans, fish stocks, fisheries, fisheries gross value of production, fishery status
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Fishery status reports 2017

Fishery status reports 2017 provides an independent evaluation of the biological and economic status of fish stocks managed solely or jointly by the Australian Government.

 This 22nd edition of the Fishery status reports covers the biological status of 94 fish stocks across 22 fisheries, including those managed both solely and jointly by the Australian Government. The reports summarise the performance of these fisheries against the requirements of fisheries legislation and policy. 

 The fisheries assessed in the Fishery status reports 2017 generated an estimated gross value of production of $439 million in 2015-16, which is about 14.5 per cent of Australia's total fisheries and aquaculture gross value of production of $3.1 billion. 

 The Fishery status reports form part of a suite of ABARES publications that aim to provide a comprehensive and multidimensional account of the trends and outlook for Australian fisheries. The Australian fisheries statistics reports provide annual updates of fisheries production and trade data. Detailed analysis of the net economic returns of selected Commonwealth fisheries is provided in the annual Australian fisheries economic indicators report. 

Tags: Commonwealth fisheries, Economy, Fishery status reports, GVP, fish stocks, fisheries, fisheries gross value of production, fishery status
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Tasmania - CRA/RFA - Forests - National Estate - Flora Disjunct

Disjunct populations are those that have become physically separated, resulting in minimal or no gene flow between them. This separation could be caused by a break in a formerly continuous distribution or by long-distance dispersal (jump dispersal) over a barrier. Often, a disjunction takes the form of a larger parent or core population and a smaller outlier, or outliers, but in some instances the disjunct populations are of about the same size. 

This database is a digital polygon coverage of Tasmania (captured at 1:500 000 scale) detailing places where concentrations of disjunct flora populations occur. Disjunct flora polygons are given a unique code, the relevant National Estate values and criteria, and cleared land status.

All sites in this coverage are classified according to National Estate criterion A1: Importance in the evolution of Australian flora, fauna, landscapes or climate.

This is an archived dataset jointly owned by the Commonwealth and the Tasmanian Governments under the Tasmania-Commonwealth Regional Forest Agreement (RFA) data agreement of 8th November 1997.This data is available to the public under licence from the Department as part of the Commonwealth Spatial Data Access and Pricing Policy.

Any reproduction of this dataset must carry the following statement:
Copyright Commonwealth of Australia and Tasmanian Government 1998.
Departmental Deed

Tags: Downloadable Data, FLORA, FLORA_Distribution, FORESTS, HERITAGE, VEGETATION Floristic, VEGETATION_Biodiversity
Organization: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Tidal Dataset - CAMRIS - Maximum Tidal Range

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.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.
CC - Attribution (CC BY)

Tags: Downloadable Data, OCEANOGRAPHY Physical_Distribution
Organization: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Fishery status reports 2015

Fishery status reports 2015  provides an independent evaluation of the biological and economic status of fish stocks managed solely or jointly by the Australian Government. 

 This 20th edition of the  Fishery status reports  covers the biological status of 92 fish stocks across 21 fisheries. The reports summarise the performance of these fisheries against the requirements of fisheries legislation and policy. 

 The status of the 92 fish stocks changed slightly in 2014, compared with the previous year. The status of several stocks improved (e.g. orange roughy in the eastern zone of the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery; albacore in the Western Tuna and Billfish Fishery), while the status of redfish in the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery declined and it is now considered to be overfished. 

 The fisheries assessed in the Fishery status reports 2015 generated an estimated gross value of production of $338.2 million in 2013-14, which is about 13 per cent of Australia's total fisheries and aquaculture gross value of production of $2.6 billion. 

 The  Fishery status reports  form part of a suite of ABARES publications that aim to provide a comprehensive and multidimensional account of the trends and outlook for Australian fisheries. The  Australian fisheries statistics  reports provide annual updates of fisheries production and trade data. Detailed analysis of the net economic returns of selected Commonwealth fisheries is provided in the annual  Australian fisheries economic indicators report . 

Tags: Commonwealth fisheries, FISHERIES, FISHERIES Marine, FISHERIES production, FISHERIES statistics, Farming, Fishery status reports, GVP, INDUSTRY Primary, fish stocks, fisheries, fisheries gross value of production, fishery status
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Fishery status reports 2013-14

Fishery status reports 2013-14  provides an independent evaluation of the biological, economic and environmental status of fish stocks managed solely or jointly by the Australian Government. 

 This 19th edition of the  Fishery status reports  covers the biological status of 93 fish stocks across 21 fisheries. The biological status of stocks managed solely or jointly by the Australian Government improved overall in 2013, compared with previous years. It is the first year since 2006 that no stocks managed solely by the Australian Government have been classified as subject to overfishing. However, this improvement in overall status has been offset by increased uncertainty surrounding the fishing mortality status of some economically important Australian Government-managed stocks, and an increase in the number of stocks managed jointly by the Australian Government that are classified as subject to overfishing and/or overfished. 

 The total gross value of production (GVP) of Commonwealth fisheries in 2012-13 was $319.7 million, which is about 13 per cent of Australia's total fisheries and aquaculture GVP of $2.4 billion. 

 The  Fishery status reports  form part of a suite of ABARES publications that aim to provide a comprehensive and multidimensional account of the trends and outlook for Australian fisheries. The  Australian fisheries statistics  reports provide annual updates of fisheries production and trade data. Detailed analysis of the net economic returns of selected Commonwealth fisheries is provided in the annual  Australian fisheries economic indicators report . 

Tags: Commonwealth fisheries, FISHERIES, FISHERIES Marine, FISHERIES production, FISHERIES statistics, Farming, Fishery status reports, GVP, INDUSTRY Primary, fish stocks, fisheries, fisheries gross value of production, fishery status
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Farm share and price spread in Australia's beef supply chain

Overview  
 This study uses a case study approach to demonstrate the potential to estimate farm shares and price spreads in Australia using a relatively simple methodology developed by the United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service. In this instance, the methodology has been applied to Australian beef price data. 

 Key Points  
• The study demonstrates that data is available that allows an analysis of farm share and price spread for beef sold at domestic retail outlets and to export markets. 
• The analysis shows that trends in farm share of the retail price and the farm-to-retail price spread were relatively flat between 1970-71 and 2015-16. It also shows that trends in farm share of the export price and the farm-to-export price spread were flat between 1996-97 and 2015-16. 
• If it is assumed that the emergence of market power beyond the farm gate is likely to be reflected in a sustained widening in price spread or a sustained decline in farm share, then these results suggest that there has been no obvious change in market power within the beef industry over the this period. 


Tags: AGRICULTURE, AGRICULTURE statistics, Farming, beef, cattle, competition, farm share, farm-to-retail, farm-to-retail price spread, food supply chain
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
A framework for regular national recreational fishing surveys

A key objective of the government's  Policy for a More Competitive and Sustainable Fisheries Sector  is to conduct national recreational fishing surveys every 5 years. 

 This report presents a cost-effective and repeatable framework for these surveys. 

Tags: FISHERIES, FISHERIES Recreational, FISHERIES statistics, Farming, fisheries, recreational fishing, surveys
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
The value of Australia's biosecurity system at the farm gate: an analysis of avoided trade and on farm impacts

This report estimates the value of Australia's biosecurity system at the 'farm gate'. The report considers the effect on farm profits of an outbreak of six potentially significant biosecurity threats to Australian agriculture: Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD), Mexican feather grass, citrus greening, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), Karnal bunt and red imported fire ants (RIFA). 

 The value of biosecurity is estimated as the on-farm costs and losses avoided due to biosecurity efforts that target the pathways through which pests, diseases and weeds enter, become established and spread throughout Australia. Avoided costs and losses include expenditures on control measures for damage mitigation, and diminished revenue arising from production losses and export market losses. 

 The report finds that the additional costs and losses incurred by farmers following a pest, weed or disease incursion can be significant. This is particularly the case for biosecurity threats which can disrupt market access and reduce farm gate prices. For example, in the absence of Australia's current biosecurity system: • the annual profits of beef, dairy and sheep enterprises would be 8 to 12 per cent lower due to the higher risk of an FMD incursion. The annual profits of pig enterprises would be 15 per cent lower 
• the annual profits of cropping enterprises would be 7 per cent lower due to a higher risk of a Karnal bunt incursion. 
 Broadacre farms typically undertake a range of cropping and livestock activities, and farm profits may be affected by several pests and diseases. In the absence of Australia's current biosecurity system: • annual broadacre farm profits would be $12 000 to $17 500 less due to the higher risk of FMD, Mexican feather grass and Karnal bunt outbreaks. 
 The farm gate value of Australia's biosecurity system will also be reflected in higher land values. This is because the profits generated by broadacre farming activities are higher than they would have been in the absence of Australia's current biosecurity system. 

Tags: AGRICULTURE, BIOSECURITY, FMD, Farming, HPAI, INDUSTRY Primary, Karnal bunt, RIFA, agriculture, biosecurity, citrus greening, farm gate, foot and mouth disease, highly pathogenic avian influenza, invasive species, mexican feather grass, red imported fire ant
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Australian lamb: financial performance of lamb producers, 2015-16 to 2017-18

Overview  
 This report presents the detailed financial performance estimates for lamb-producing farms for 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18, and discusses incomes, investment, farm debt, and costs of production in a historical context. The report draws on data from the ABARES annual Australian Agricultural and Grazing Industries Survey (AAGIS). The report was commissioned by Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA). 

 The report will be published as a series of chapters online throughout the year. The web-reports are a new format for publishing this information - aimed at delivering information to stakeholders as the chapters are completed rather than as one annual report. 


Tags: Australia, Farming, agricultural commodities, costs, farms, financial performance, financial performance lamb producers, income, profit, receipts
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences