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Australian Agricultural Restructuring and Disadvantaged Farmers
Ren HU
Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research, University of Wollongong
- 1. Restructuring
and Disadvantaged Farmers Ren HU Australian Centre for Cultural - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Australian Agricultural Restructuring and Disadvantaged Farmers Ren HU Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research, University of Wollongong 1. Restructuring Since the 1970s Agriculture in decline Reduced government support
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Since the 1970s
Agriculture in decline
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- ① Reduced government support
- ② Market liberalisation
- ③ Loss of farmland to residential and mining
- ④ Declining number of farmers
- ⑤ Outmigration of young people
- ⑥ Retreat of public services
- ⑦ High rural debt
- ⑧ Power concentrated in supermarkets
- ⑨ Rural hardship
- ⑩ Environmental degradation
(ABS, 2012; Millar & Roots, 2012)
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Rural sector naturally disadvantaged by
- il dependence
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age of agricultural restructuring age of high and volatile oil price
(Tverberg, 2015)
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- 2. Oil
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Major oil companies
- Increasing expenditure
(but not production)
- Profits squeezed
- Oil price capped by affordability
(Tverberg, 2014)
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Oil shortage and global recession
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For a rural town like Berry in Kiama, NSW shift from dairy industry to tourism where visitors have to drive by hard to develop economy
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- 3. Prospect
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High correlation World GDP and energy use Renewables founded on fossil fuel system
(Tverberg, 2015)
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Low oil and low income rural low oil and low output agri
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For agriculture
energy-intensive production
since green revolution 1960s may not suit the future
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Can we ignore the peak oil? Should we prepare for the transformation?
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- 4. My own project
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Interview project Illawarra dairy farmers fuel, debt
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References in my conf paper
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