Drought is one of these natural weather phenomena set to accelerate that causes massive losses to agricultural crops, increase land degradation, reduce clean water supplies and thereby inducing malnutrition and starva

Dr Ben Henley of the University of Melbourne was invited to present and participate as a panel member in the Australian Cotton Conference Cotton Conference "Climate Session presentation and Panel Discussion"

This travel Scholarship supported Dr Robert Mensah, who was invited by the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC)and presented the topic “IPM is Key to Insecticide Management: Alternative Solutions for Insecti

This travel sponsorship funded the attendance of an Australian CSIRO researcher to attend the 77th Plenary meeting of the International Cotton Advisory Committee in the Ivory Coast representing the Australian experien

Climate change will affect cotton through rising atmospheric CO2 levels, higher temperatures, lower humidity (high Vapour Pressure Deficit (VPD)) and reduced water availability.

The second Agriculture and Climate Change conference focused on the likely impact of climate change on crop production and explored approaches to maintain and increase crop productivity in a changing climate.

The Carbon Farming Futures program was about ensuring that advances in land management technologies and techniques for emissions reduction and adaptation will lead to enhanced productivity and sustainable land use und

Travel funding to attend the Agriculture and Climate Change Conference in March 2017 in Spain for one researcher.

Leaf traits of five riparian tree species common to cotton farms of the Northern Murray-Darling Basin were investigated to determine inter- and intraspecific variation.

In this issue: Focus on Southern Rural Water; New sustainable irrigation program; Project update; PRD makes Top 100

Drs Robert Mensah and Lewis Wilson were invited by on the Organising Committee of the

International Congress of Entomology Conference to organise a symposium on the

The aim of the this collaborative project is to improve the long term viability of irrigated

enterprises in Western Australia by increasing their capacity to effectively assess

The Winter 2011 edition of CRDC's quarterly magazine, Spotlight, looks at pest and disease threats in the Australian cotton industry and looks back at the lessons learned in crop management post flood.

The topic of this travel fellowship was the water-energy-emissions nexus in irrigated agriculture.

Future Australian and international policy directions may require industries to account for their

resource use and emissions. Rural primary industries utilise several types of resources and produce

To predict the social and economic impacts of changes in agricultural production including cotton on community wellbeing and resilience a different scales in the context of changes to water availability arising from p

Australia's primary industries and the communities that depend on them need to be sustainable, competitive and profitable now, and into the future, to secure Australia's food supplies and national prosperity

By increasing our understanding and predictability of three large-scale climate drivers - El Nino (the Southern Oscillation), changes in the Indian Ocean sea surface temperatures and the Southern Annular mode (hemisph

Findings at a glance

Water availability and the related subject of climate change is the primary issue facing the

The project has made significant contributions to further our understanding of causes

and consequences of climate variability and climate change.