Land & Water Australia

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Employee Count: 20
Keywords: government administration

Land & Water Australia was a Statutory Corporation established under the Primary Industries and Energy Research and Development Act of 1989. Its primary focus was to organize and fund research and development (R& D) activities which improved the long term productive capacity, sustainable use, management and conservation of Australia's land, water and vegetation resources. It also acted as a research broker, organising collaborative R& D programs like Managing Climate Variability and the National Program for Sustainable Irrigation. The Research Programs of Land & Water Australia were managed to facilitate the purposeful co-investment of government and other funds to achieve natural resource management outcomes in 'productive lands' (a phrase used to differentiate it from land used predominantly for conservation, Indigenous or Defence purposes). The focus of most programs was on co-investment with research, policy and practioners to get existing and new knowledge into the minds and hands of people who could use it. After the agency was closed responsibility for some programs and project was transferred. Land & Water Australia was closed in 2009. Over the twenty years people at Land & Water Australia learned and contributed a great deal in terms of science and policy understanding about managing Australian landscapes. They also learned a great deal about the business of investing in collaborative applied research, development and extension. These insights are reflected in the following publications: The Getting of Knowledge: a guide to funding and managing applied researchThe Australian NRM Knowledge System: an analysis of how well current arrangements generate and organise the knowledge needed for Australia to manage its natural resource more wisely