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Cereal and wool production in the Esperance Sandplain area of Western Australia: The need for a systems approach for sustainable agriculture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2009

Murray Fulton
Murray Fulton
Affiliation:
Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and the Centre for the Study of Co-operatives, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CanadaS7N 0W0.
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Abstract

The problems facing farmers in the Esperance Sandplain region of Western Australia—salinity, herbicide resistance, wind erosion, and plant disease—are highly interrelated. Unless the biological, economic and social aspects of the problems are examined in an integrated way, no sustainable system will be found. Similarly, agricultural teaching and research must become much more integrated if they are to address agricultural and environmental problems satisfactorily. This will require changes in the structure of university and research institutions and in the rewards for research and teaching.

Keywords

sustainable developmentsystems analysissalinity
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American Journal of Alternative Agriculture , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , June 1993 , pp. 85 - 90
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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