Farmers should not bear the whole burden of ensuring that their agricultural practices are ecologically sustainable.Farmers need to manage the Australian landscape, including rivers, wetlands and estuaries, in ways that are ecologically sustainable – and city-dwellers need to pay them for doing so.This was the message from leading agricultural scientist, Dr John Williams, a former chief of CSIRO Land and Water, who delivered the 2005 Farrer Memorial Oration recently at the University of Sydney.I…
