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Social impact assessment research is part of ABARES’ applied social research and analysis. Reports have been prepared for the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, other government agencies, research and development corporations, and industry bodies.
Social Assessment Handbook: A…
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Australia is a party to international treaties that govern the trade of goods. As a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Australia is obliged to ensure that sanitary (relating to human and animal health) and phytosanitary (relating to plant health) measures are based on science and applied…
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Author: James Fell
In recent years China has announced big changes to its agricultural policies, changes which are likely to have an impact on Australian agricultural exporters.
ABARES analysed these…
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Rural Research and Development update - September 2011
Background
The Rural Research and Development (R&D) Council is the government’s key advisory body on rural R&D. The principal goal…
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Weekly Australian Climate,
Water and Agricultural Update
Key issues
For the week ending 20 April 2022, low-pressure troughs and cold fronts brought rainfall to parts of southern Australia, and tropical lows resulted in heavy rainfall for parts of far northern Australia. Meanwhile,…
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The Biosecurity Economics section within ABARES provides economic modelling research, cost-benefit analysis and related advice on biosecurity issues to the broader department and external clients. The section undertakes a range of multi-disciplinary research projects that assist ABARES, the…
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If you export wood, pulp or paper products to Australia, you are not directly regulated under Australia’s illegal logging laws. All legal obligations sit with the businesses importing the regulated timber products into Australia.However, your Australian customers may ask you for information about…
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This section presents socio-economic indicators for the forestry sector drawn from the ABS 2011 and 2016 Census of Population and Housing. These build on the indicators presented in the AFWPS September and December quarters 2012 (ABARES 2012) PDF [2.01 MB, 11 pages], which reported data from the…
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Fishery status reports 2025 provides an independent evaluation of the biological and economic status of fish stocks managed solely or jointly by the Australian Government.This 30th edition of the Fishery status reports covers the biological status of 56 stocks across 20 fisheries. The reports…
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2025An analysis of Plantation ProductivityThis report is a first step towards understanding productivity in the plantation forestry sector and uses a partial productivity measure of Mean Annual Increment (MAI) which is the average annual volume growth per hectare of a plantation over its entire age…
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