PROJECT NUMBER
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2024-049
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
ORGANISATION:
AgriFutures Australia
12 results
Community Trust in Rural Industries 2022-2025 - Joint RDC initiative
Project number:
2023-179
Project Status:
Current
Budget expenditure:
$48,855.43
Principal Investigator:
Georgina Toose
Organisation:
AgriFutures Australia
Project start/end date:
10 Apr 2024
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14 Dec 2025
Contact:
FRDC
A continuation of representative national surveys of the Australian public regarding attitudes towards trust and acceptance of rural industries, trends shifts, and drivers.
1. Develop capability across the sector to monitor, anticipate and respond to shifts in the levels oftrust the community has in Australia's rural industries.
2. Build a common language and collective national narrative around the community trust challenge.
3. Identify common best practice approaches, strategies and interventions for building, rebuilding andmaintaining community trust.
Capability and Capacity: enabling and accelerating career pathways in fishing and aquaculture (Horizon scholarships)
Project number:
2023-098
Project Status:
Current
Budget expenditure:
$80,000.00
Principal Investigator:
Emily Jones
Organisation:
AgriFutures Australia
Project start/end date:
11 Jan 2024
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13 Dec 2027
Contact:
FRDC
PROJECT NUMBER
•
2019-042
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Community Trust in Rural Industries - A framework for advancing social acceptance of the agriculture sector in Australia - A joint RDC initiative
Rural industries (fishers, farmers and foresters) have collaborated to develop a pathway to proactive, transparent, long term engagement with the community via a three-year research program into the drivers of community trust.
ORGANISATION:
AgriFutures Australia
PROJECT NUMBER
•
2018-214
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Rural Safety & Health Alliance - A joint RDC initiative
The Work Health and Safety (WHS) Communication Guidelines aim to help Research and Development Corporations (RDCs) and industry associations within the agriculture, forestry and fishing sector to communicate with flair and impact to improve WHS outcomes. ...
ORGANISATION:
AgriFutures Australia
PROJECT NUMBER
•
2018-153
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Agrifutures: FRDC Contribution: Phase 2 of $100 billion growth strategy
In 2017, the National Farmers’ Federation announced a vision for Australian agriculture to exceed a farm gate value of $100 billion by 2030.
AgriFutures Australia commissioned ACIL Allen to:
Establish a baseline projection which estimated a farm-gate value of $84.3 billion by...
ORGANISATION:
AgriFutures Australia
TAGS
PROJECT NUMBER
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2012-409
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
People development program: Primary industries health and safety collaborative partnership 2012-2015
FRDC invested in the Primary industries health and safety collaborative partnership - there is no final report, however the following three (3) products were developed:
- Health and Safety in the Australian Fishing Industry - RIRDC Publication No. 11/021
- Adoption of Health and Safety...
ORGANISATION:
AgriFutures Australia
PROJECT NUMBER
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2011-050
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
ORGANISATION:
AgriFutures Australia
TAGS
PROJECT NUMBER
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2010-215
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
AgriFutures Australia
TAGS
Collaborative partnership for farming and fishing health and safety
Project number:
2008-313
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$250,000.00
Principal Investigator:
Ken Moore
Organisation:
AgriFutures Australia
Project start/end date:
28 Mar 2008
-
30 Jun 2012
Contact:
FRDC
About 150 persons die from non–intentional injury each year on Australian farms. Between 300 and 350 male farmers and farm workers die a traumatic death from all causes each year. The mortality rate in Australian farming is approximately four times that of the all-industries rated (19.5 per 100,000 employees compared to 5.5 per 100,000 employees) (Durey and Lower, 2004).
The rate of workers compensation claims from agriculture, forestry and fishing in 2001-2002 was 27 per thousand employees. There are about 4,500 claims each year made by workers in the agricultural and horticultural industries. Also self employed farmers are not obliged to report injuries so that the incidence reported may be an underestimate.
In the four years 1989-1992 a total of 55 people were fatally injured while involved in work related fishing industries (NOHSC, 1999). Between 1991 and 2001 a total of 16 professional fishermen drowned as a result of falling or being washed from commercial fishing vessels in Victorian waters.
Available statistics indicate that there is a higher rate of suicide among rural populations generally, and farmers in particular. For example, in the period 1988 to 1997, 921 suicides were identified for farm managers and agricultural labourers (Page & Fragar, 2002). The ABS reports that between 1988 and 1998, the suicide rate was up to 17 per 100,000 persons per year in rural areas, compared to 12-13 per 100,000 in the capital cities.
The health status and determinants of health (e.g. death rates, income etc) are generally worse in rural and remote areas than in metropolitan areas. There is a need to identify factors that contribute to this discrepancy, particularly as it is likely to apply to farmers and fishers.
There is a prevailing opinion that many farm and fishing injuries and deaths are preventable.
1. To improve the physical health of farming and fishing workers and their families
2. To improve the mental health of farming and fishing families
3. To improve the safety environment and work practices in farming and fishing industries
Final report
Author:
Ken Moore
Final Report
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2017-09-29
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4.88 MB
2008-313-DLD.pdf
The Collaborative partnership for farming and fishing health and safety is funded by RIRDC, the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, Grains Research and Development Corporation, Fisheries Research and Development Corporation, Sugar Research and Development Corporation and Cotton Research and Development Corporation.
The key target audiences for health and safety information are business owners, managers and employees, who with their families live on Australian farms and in fishing communities.
Improvement in the physical and mental well-being of these groups resulting from investment in RD&E is the key outcome of the Program. The Program has also improved consultation and communication with health professionals and researchers working in the field of rural health and safety.
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