Skip to main content Skip to main navigation Skip to search
ABARES

Top navigation abares

  • Department
  • Ministers
  • Media Centre
Main menu

Main navigation ABARES

  • ABARES Home
    ABARES Home
  • About
    About
  • Research topics
    Research topics
  • Products
    Products
  • Data
    Data
  • News
    News
  • Conferences and events
    Conferences and events
  • Careers
    Careers
Department of Agriculture

Breadcrumb

  1. DAFF Home
  2. ABARES
  3. Research topics
  4. Social sciences

Secondary ABARES

  • Research topics
    • About my region: regional profiles
    • Agricultural outlook
      • Agricultural overview
      • Australian crop report
        • National overview
        • New South Wales
        • Queensland
        • South Australia
        • Victoria
        • Western Australia
      • Commodities and trade data
      • Economic overview
      • Seasonal conditions
      • Outlook for crops
      • Outlook for livestock
      • Water market outlook
      • Historical agricultural forecast database
      • Definitions
      • Previous reports
    • Biosecurity
      • Biosecurity economics
        • 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
        • An assessment of the economic return of specific early detection surveillance for Asian Gypsy Moth
        • Treated ballast water and its impact on port water quality
        • Application of a new method based on portfolio theory to inform the allocation of plant health surveillance resources in northern Australia
      • Biosecurity engagement
    • Climate and drought
      • Agricultural Data Integration Project
      • Farm performance and climate
      • Measuring drought risk
    • Fisheries
      • Fishery status reports 2022
      • Fisheries and aquaculture statistics 2021
        • 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
        • Allocating fish stocks between commercial and recreational fishers: examples from Australia and overseas
        • An evaluation of the reliability of electronic monitoring and logbook data for informing fisheries science and management: gillnet, hook and trap sector
        • Shark assessment report 2018
    • Food demand in Australia
      • Trends and issues 2018
      • Trends and food security issues 2017
    • Forests
      • Forest economics
        • Australian forest and wood products statistics
          • Socio-economic indicators—trends to 2018
        • Forest economic research
          • 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
      • 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
    • Labour
      • Australian agricultural workforce: Stocktake of data sources
      • Previous research
      • Trends in the Australian Agricultural Workforce
    • Land Use
      • Land use of Australia 2010–11 to 2015–16, 250 m
      • Catchment scale land use of Australia - Commodities - Update December 2020
      • Catchment scale land use profiles
    • Agricultural productivity
      • Agricultural productivity estimates
      • International comparisons
      • Measuring productivity
      • Productivity data
      • Productivity drivers
        • Seasonal workers and working holiday makers comparison report
      • Productivity introduction
      • Productivity publications
      • Related research
        • Labour force survey
        • Rural research, development and extension investment in Australia
    • 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
    • Farm surveys and analysis
      • 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
      • Dashboard (beta)
    • Water
      • A model of water trade and irrigation activity in the southern Murray-Darling Basin
      • Future scenarios for the southern Murray-Darling Basin: Report to the Independent Assessment of Social and Economic Conditions in the Basin
      • Measuring water market prices
      • Murray-Darling Basin water markets: trends and drivers 2002-03 to 2018-19
      • Murray-Darling-Basin water market dataset
      • Trends in water entitlement holdings and trade: Analysis of ABARES survey data
      • Water Market Outlook
    • 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
      • 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
      • Analytical distributions and statistics for managing import pathway risk using the continuous sampling plan CSP-1
      • Analytical distributions and statistics for managing import pathway risk using the continuous sampling plans CSP-2 and CSP-3
      • Defining drought from the perspective of Australian farmers
      • Discount rates and risk in economic analysis
      • Non-tariff measures: A methodology
      • Simulating the effects of climate change on the profitability of Australian farms

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
  • 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
  • foresighting
  • 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
  • Behaviour and Design Community of Practice
  • The team coordinates the bimonthly the ABARES/Thai Office of Agricultural Economics discussion forum, and coordinates ABARES Agricultural Foundations course.

Current projects 

Some key current projects and clients include:

  • Agricultural innovation policy
  • Community vulnerability to drought
  • Environmental impacts of vertebrate pest animals and weeds in Australia
  • Human and social dimensions of vertebrate pest animals and weeds in Australia
  • Improving DAFF’s effectiveness in engaging the community about general surveillance
  • 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

Thanks for your feedback.
Thanks! Your feedback has been submitted.

We aren't able to respond to your individual comments or questions.
To contact us directly phone us or submit an online inquiry

CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.

Please verify that you are not a robot.

Skip

Footer

  • Contact us
  • Accessibility
  • Disclaimer
  • Privacy
  • FOI
Last updated: 28 October 2022

© Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of country throughout Australia and recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.