Influencing agriculture practice behaviour change and trust frameworks. (Old ID 26963)

Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment
Role

Principal Investigator

Description

The ecologically-determined water quality improvement targets for the Great Barrier Reef can only be met with significant improvement in farm management practices. Numerous programs over many years, utilising a variety of approaches, have worked with land managers and representative farmer groups, seeking to achieve high levels of uptake of recommended farming practices. However, these have only met with low-moderate success. There has been significant work encouraging and facilitating behaviour and practice change in recent years, including through, but certainly not limited to, the NESP TWQ Hub. Programs encouraging behaviour and practice change are set to remain a feature of contemporary reef funding programs. Thus it is timely to coordinate a synthesis of learnings in this domain. Increasing understanding of, and improving trust frameworks and behaviour change of land managers will lead to improved water quality to the Great Barrier Reef. Understanding the impetus, benefits and barriers of behaviour change for agricultural practice is a large step in improving water quality to the Great Barrier Reef.

Date

01 Jan 2020 - 10 Dec 2020

Project Type

GRANT

Keywords

Farming;Agriculture;Behaviour Change;Best practice;Culture

Funding Body

Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment

Amount

13500

Project Team

Norm Duke;Aaron Davis;Damien Burrows;Allan Dale