Reports

This page has links to reports about irrigation and the economy in Australia. The links are sorted by the author bodies—the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics, the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, the Business Council of Australia, Marsden Jacob Associates, the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality, the National Program for Sustainable Irrigation and the NSW Department of Primary Industries Economics.

Use the links in the left-hand menu to access related information on the following relevant topics:

• subsidies and rebates

• drought assistance (nationally and by state and territory)

• water accounting

• socio-economic.

Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering

• Making irrigation pay its way

• Water and the Australian economy

Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics

• Australian commodities report: March 07—Economic overview: Prospects for economic growth, 2007 to 2012

• Australian crop report: February 2007

• Conjunctive water management: economic issues and policy options, November 2006

• Farm financial performance; Australian farm income, debt and investment, 2004–05 to 2006–07

• Groundwater extraction; economic impacts of stream flow depletion in the Murray Darling Basin

• Mildura–Wentworth: a case study of horticultural farm performance March 2007

Australian Bureau of Statistics

• Characteristics of Australia's irrigated farms, 2000–01 to 2003–04

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

• Special issue on water economics and policy

Business Council of Australia

• Time to fix Australia's urban and rural man-made water problems

• Water under pressure: Australia's man made water scarcity and how to fix it

Marsden Jacob Associates

• Financial and economic advice on efficient use of irrigation water

National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality

• The business of saving water

National Program for Sustainable Irrigation

• Australian irrigation in the new millenium (2000)

NSW Department of Primary Industries

• Socio-economic assessment of water reforms

 

Please let us know about other useful links to reports on irrigation and the economy in Australia.