Signposts for Australian agriculture

Abstract

Signposts for Australian Agriculture was initiated by the federal government to help provide a better sense of how the agricultural industry contributes to sustainable development. It offers profiles of six agricultural sectors and how those sectors are performing with regard to specific objectives, such as the conservation of natural biodiversity. As such, it helps identify priorities for investments in natural resource management. From an adaptive management perspective, Signposts is an example of a more passive form of the continuum of learning-based approaches. A major finding in an evaluation of the project has been the underutilisation of data in some situations and the lack of data in others.