ENVIRONMENT Food bowl emptied due to conservationist myopia*

Writing recently in Quadrant Online, Alan Moran from the Australian Environment Foundation (not to be confused with the Australian Conservation Foundation), pointed out that agricultural production in the Murray-Darling Basin, which not long ago accounted for some 40 per cent of total agricultural production in Australia, is now under threat. A steep decline in the availability of water for irrigation has led to a concomitant decline in agricultural output.



The decline in …

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