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Does Australia need a national policy to protect agricultural land?

Does Australia need a national policy to protect agricultural land? . MAV Rural Land Use Forum Trevor Budge. Australian Farm Institute Project. Who is AFI Aims of Project Key Elements of the Project. Setting the Context . What is (highly productive/prime) agricultural land?

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Does Australia need a national policy to protect agricultural land?

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  1. Does Australia need a national policy to protect agricultural land? MAV Rural Land Use Forum Trevor Budge

  2. Australian Farm Institute Project • Who is AFI • Aims of Project • Key Elements of the Project

  3. Setting the Context • What is (highly productive/prime) agricultural land? • Factors: Soil, water, growing conditions, critical mass, infrastructure, labour force • Are we running out of land? • Is productive land valued as a finite resource?

  4. What is the Policy Context? • Not a national issue • Six different state approaches • A moving policy approach • Agricultural land or other values?

  5. How are decisions made? • At different levels • Using different inputs • Balancing politics and resource management

  6. Food • Will it be a political issue? • Three scenarios • Imported food – health scare • Climate change impacts • Link with health issues

  7. Who will own this issue? • Where does it sit in Federal and State bureaucracies? • Metropolitan planning • Recognition of productive land as a finite resource – as other resources have been • Economic, social and environmental issues

  8. How will all this play out? • National Policy • State policy • Impacts in terms of land use planning in Victoria • How will it enter the land use planning scene? • Act, SPPF, Metro Policy, MSS, Zones

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