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Horticulture is one of the most important agricultural industries in Victoria when the value of production, value adding, returns per Megalitre of water, employment, and health are considered. Horticulture’s gross value of production was $1.9 billion in 2005 with more than 43,000 Victorian’s employed in the Horticulture sector. This value is steadily increasing as water transfers from lower to higher value horticultural uses.
Many of the biophysical, environmental, social and economic impacts climate change will have on horticultural industries and their rural communities are unpredictable. To address this, there is a need to assist industries to make informed and timely decisions regarding emerging opportunities, and to understand the implications of changes in government policy for their business.
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Climate Change Lectures
Kevin Hennessy, Principal Research Scientist from CSIRO, presents on collaborative research between CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology which has contributed to the Federal Government’s current drought review. The project titled Assessment of the Impact of Climate Change on the Nature and Frequency of Exceptional Climatic Events addresses the biophysical aspects of exceptional circumstances. In this presentation Kevin steps through an overview of recent climatic trends, in both temperature and rainfall, the methodology that was used to determine how these events might increase in future, and the results of the study and some conclusions.
Kevin Hennessy was invited to speak to DPI staff by the DPI Climate Change Network, a project supported by the Future Farming Strategy.
Lecture 1 - The Impact of Climate Change
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Lecture 2 - Climate change and fire-weather risk
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