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  • Research topics
    • About my region: regional profiles
    • Agricultural outlook
      • Agricultural Commodities Report March 2025
      • Australian crop report
        • Australian Crop Report March 2025
      • Commodities and trade data
      • Historical agricultural forecast database
      • Definitions
      • Previous reports
    • Biosecurity
      • Biosecurity economics
        • Cost of established pest animals and weeds to Australian agricultural producers
        • Potential economic consequences of African swine fever in Australia
        • A benefit-cost framework for responding to Varroa
        • Benefits of increased access to minor use chemicals
        • Biosecurity control strategies for red imported fire ants
        • Biosecurity response options for black-striped mussel
        • Consequences of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak
        • Consequences of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak - 2022 update
        • Economic consequences of a scrapie outbreak in Australia
        • Economic impacts of Xylella fastidiosa on the Australian wine grape and wine-making industries
        • Estimating the value of Australian biosecurity arrangements for equine influenza since the 2007 outbreak
        • Farm gate value of biosecurity
        • Potential impact of the wheat steam rust strain Ug99 in Australia
        • The impacts of Xylella fastidiosa on Australian horticulture and the environment
      • Biosecurity sciences
        • Potential distribution of the invasive marine species Magallana ariakensis (Suminoe river oyster) in Australia
        • Potential distribution of the invasive marine species Didemnum vexillum (carpet sea squirt) in Australia
        • Potential distribution of the invasive marine species Potamocorbula amurensis (Amur River clam) in Australia
      • Biosecurity engagement
    • Climate and drought
      • Agricultural Data Integration Project
      • Farm performance and climate
      • Measuring drought risk
    • Fisheries
      • Fishery status reports
      • Fisheries and aquaculture statistics 2022
        • Australian fisheries and aquaculture production
        • Australia’s trade in fisheries and aquaculture products
          • Market access improvements: A case study of stone fruit exports to China
        • Seafood consumption in Australia
        • Employment in Australian fisheries and aquaculture
        • About this report
        • Other useful information
        • Economic concepts in Australian fisheries and aquaculture statistics
      • Fisheries data
      • Fisheries economics
        • Australian fisheries and aquaculture outlook
        • Australian fisheries economic indicators
      • Fisheries research
        • Commonwealth Fisheries Harvest Strategy Policy and Commonwealth Fisheries Bycatch Policy Implementation Review
        • Shark Assessment Report 2022
        • Analyses to support the review of the Southern Squid Jig Fishery harvest strategy
    • Food demand in Australia
      • Trends and issues 2018
      • Trends and food security issues 2017
    • Forests
      • Forest economics
        • Australian forest and wood products statistics
        • Forest economic research
          • Australian wood volumes analysis
          • A framework for developing medium term projections of traded wood products
          • Economic potential for new plantation establishment in Australia
          • Future opportunities for using forest and sawmill residues in Australia
          • Illegal logging regulation: analysis of regulated importers by business size
          • Productivity and efficiency of the Australian sawmilling industry
          • Responsiveness of demand for structural pine to changes in timber and steel prices
          • Short-term forecasts of selected wood product sales volume: Method and assumptions
          • Upscaling the Australian softwood sawmill industry
        • Australian plantation statistics update
        • Plantation and log supply
        • National wood processing survey
      • Forest sciences
      • Forest data
      • Forests overview
    • Invasive species
      • National Feral Pig Current Distribution in Australia
      • Distribution and impacts of established pest animals and weeds
      • Exotic invasive species with environmental impacts
      • Prioritising targets for biological control of weeds
      • The National Priority List of Exotic Environmental Pests, Weeds and Diseases dataset
      • The state of weeds data collection in Australia
      • Wild dog research
    • Agricultural workforce
      • At a glance
      • Labour use surveys
      • Agricultural workforce data
      • Research
    • Land Use
      • Land use of Australia 2010–11 to 2020–21
      • Catchment scale land use of Australia and commodities - Update December 2023
      • Catchment scale land use profiles
    • Farm productivity
      • ABARES Farmland Price Indicator
      • R&D Investment
      • Agricultural productivity estimates
      • Productivity drivers
      • Productivity introduction
      • Productivity publications
    • Social sciences
      • Australian marine pest network analysis
      • Biosecurity research
      • Climate research
      • Community engagement
      • Community involvement in plant biosecurity
      • Human dimensions research
      • Making general surveillance work
        • General surveillance case study overviews
        • Guidelines for general surveillance programs
        • Literature review: Understanding general surveillance as a system
        • Research report: Making general surveillance programs work
        • Stocktake of general surveillance initiatives
      • Natural resource management
      • Pest animals and weed management survey
      • Recreational boat operators’ self-management of biofouling in Australia
      • Social aspects of weed management
      • Social impact assessment
      • General surveillance program design, monitoring and evaluation guide
    • Farm performance
      • Dairy farm performance
      • Farm survey data
      • Disaggregating farm performance statistics by size
      • Previous research
    • Trade
      • Climate, sustainability & agricultural trade
      • Trade facilitation, barriers and NTMs
      • Future value chain opportunities
        • Foreign Direct Investment in Australian Agriculture
      • Dashboard (beta)
    • Water
      • Community vulnerability and adaptive capacity in the Murray Darling Basin
      • The impacts of further water recovery in the southern Murray–Darling Basin
      • 2024: Environmental water trade – Making every drop count.
    • Agricultural forecasting
      • Changes to reporting of marketing year data
      • Farm share and price spread
      • Farmers' terms of trade: Update to farm costs and prices paid
      • Forecasting national grain stocks in times of drought
      • Seasonal climate scenarios for medium-term forecasts
      • Summary of ABARES agricultural forecasting
      • The future of public sector forecasting in Australian agriculture
    • Working papers
      • Technical improvements to GTEM: Sticky livestock capital and resources costs for land sequestration and abatement technologies
      • A micro-simulation model of irrigation farms in the southern Murray-Darling Basin
      • A model of spatial and inter-temporal water trade in the southern Murray-Darling Basin

Social sciences

ABARES Social Sciences undertakes applied social research and analysis, to support the strategic program and policy goals of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, other government agencies, research and development corporations, and industry bodies.

ABARES social sciences research

  • Agricultural innovation policy
  • Biosecurity
  • Climate and drought
  • Community engagement
  • Human dimensions
  • Natural resource management
  • Social impact assessment

ABARES social research capabilities

The team has the following research capabilities:

  • application of frameworks for supporting behaviour change, systems thinking, vulnerability and resilience, and understanding social, cultural and institutional dimensions of change
  • development of decision support tools and materials
  • Bayesian network analysis and integrated assessment
  • community engagement theory, processes and practice
  • demographic analysis
  • design and facilitate focus groups and workshops
  • design, delivery, data capture and statistical analysis of sample surveys
  • ethics advice on research proposals and projects
  • institutional analysis and design
  • monitoring and evaluation of programs and policies
  • multidisciplinary research
  • policy analysis and design
  • qualitative and quantitative research and analysis
  • social impact and structural adjustment assessment
  • social network analysis
  • teaching and capability building.

Affiliations

  • General Surveillance Community of Practice: a cross sector community of people working on different aspects of general surveillance programs to learn, network and collaborate
  • Australian Centre for Evaluation (ACE): Community of Practice
  • The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
  • Innovation Policy Forum: a diverse community of experts exploring how to achieve an agrifood innovation system that proactively adapts to changes in the demands placed on it, in particular, relating to grand societal challenges

Current projects

Some key current projects and clients include:

  • Agricultural innovation policy
  • Community vulnerability to drought
  • Design, measurement and evaluation of General Surveillance programs
  • Human and social dimensions of vertebrate pest animals and weeds in Australia
  • Monitoring landholder pest and weed management practices (Wave 3) (Environmental Biosecurity Office, the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry)
  • State of The Forests Reporting 2023: Community resilience
  • Trends in the Australian agricultural workforce (Agricultural Policy, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry)

Latest releases

Guidelines for general surveillance programs

Making general surveillance programs work – Lessons from nine case studies

National Pest and Weed Management survey results

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Page last updated: 06 February 2024

We acknowledge the continuous connection of First Nations Traditional Owners and Custodians to the lands, seas and waters of Australia. We recognise their care for and cultivation of Country. We pay respect to Elders past and present, and recognise their knowledge and contribution to the productivity, innovation and sustainability of Australia’s agriculture, fisheries and forestry industries.

Artwork: Protecting our Country, Growing our Future
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