Transitioning to Climate Smart Agriculture in the Goulburn Broken


This research is being conducted to determine whether international approaches for Climate Smart Agriculture can usefully be implemented Australia.

Climate Smart Agriculture seeks to increase food production from existing farmland while reducing farm inputs and minimizing pressure on the environment.

It is a response to the rapidly growing world population (with 150 new people added to the world’s population every minute!) and increasing competition for resources like good agricultural land and water.

A new Approach to the Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture

Transitioning to Climate Smart Agriculture in the Goulburn Broken

This survey is part of a research project investigating agricultural management practices in the Goulburn Broken region of Victoria.

In particular, the research will look at climate smart agriculture in the region, or the improvement and increase of yields, with a corresponding reduction or maintenance of farm inputs, focusing on determining the potential value adds for farmers and the region.

This research is being undertaken as part of Deakin University’s Master of Science program.

As part of the research, we need to better understand the current level of knowledge about Climate Smart Agriculture, or existing related practices throughout the Goulburn-Broken catchment region.

As such, we have developed a short online survey that will take approximately 20 minutes to complete.

Participation in this survey is anonymous and no identifying information from participant’s responses will be recorded. Your participation and consent is assumed once you have submitted your information and cannot be withdrawn, as your information cannot be traced back to you.

We do not provide tokens to participate in this survey, and there are no specific questions asking you identifiable information.

The results of the questionnaire will allow us to determine whether there are opportunities to introduce more Climate Smart Agriculture concepts into the region to increase productivity or as an adaptation measure to climate variability.

Participants are invited to contact the researchers if they would like a summary of the results or with any further questions, and summary results from this survey will be distributed by the Goulburn Broken CMA.

While we appreciate you being as accurate as possible in your responses, if you're not quite sure, an approximate answer is fine.

Your assistance with this research is greatly appreciated.

For more information please click here

If you have any questions please contact the researchers on:

Madeleine Johnson: Madeleine.J@deakin.edu.au

Robert Faggian: R.Faggian@deakin.edu.au

 

Complaints

If you have any complaints about any aspect of the project, the way it is being conducted or any questions about your rights as a research participant, then you may contact:

The Manager, Ethics and Biosafety
Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood Victoria 3125
Telephone: 9251 7129
Please quote project title: Transitioning to Climate Smart Agriculture in the Goulburn Broken and quote ID: STEC-27-2017-JOHNSON

There are 26 questions in this survey.

A note on privacy
This survey is anonymous.
The record of your survey responses does not contain any identifying information about you, unless a specific survey question explicitly asked for it. If you used an identifying token to access this survey, please rest assured that this token will not be stored together with your responses. It is managed in a separate database and will only be updated to indicate whether you did (or did not) complete this survey. There is no way of matching identification tokens with survey responses.