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August/September Insights: Competition policy in Australian agriculture

Markets not working well provide an endless source of agricultural policy discussion. Not surprisingly, complaints of market failure, of imbalance of power and monopolistic (or monopsonistic) behaviour, are enticing and often involve the classic David and Goliath battle of the small business failing because of competition from larger competitors and of industries declining because of a flood of cheap imports. This issue of Insights looks at competition policy in 2020, drills down into implications for the dairy sector, and runs through some of the AFI's previous work on the topic.

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Winter Journal - Shifting sands:
ag policy in a post-truth era

This edition explores a number of themes in relation to the increasingly difficult environment of policy development in a post-truth era. How is truth established in today’s world, where alternative facts and fake news are blamed by those on every side of every debate for diminishing their ‘truthful’ position? While we would like to hope this journal could help draw a line in the sand on assessment of truth to inform policy, it is likely the sands will continue to shift. A collection of thought-provoking articles from Matt Cawood, N. J. Enfield, Dr Virginia Marshall, Hon. Niall Blair, Jim Pratley and Katie McRobert.

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May/June Insights: Emerging ag policy responses to COVID-19

May/June 2020 Insights discusses ag policy and COVID-19. Richard Heath asks 'What happens next?' Turlough Guerin, Ag Institute Australia Chair, looks at supply chains. Rob Gordon, CEO Sunrice, and Emma Germano, producer and VFF Vice President, offer views on policy and ag sector impacts from COVID-19. Katie McRobert looks back 10 years to the first John Ralph Essay Competition which explored agriculture's capacity to buffer economy against shocks.

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Farm Biodiversity Project

In 2019 the Australian Government announced funding for the implementation of an Australian Farm Biodiversity Scheme to be developed and led by the National Farmers' Federation. As part of the Agriculture Stewardship Package, the aim of the scheme is to reward farmers for managing biodiversity on farm through market-based mechanisms and thus enable the continued provision of natural capital benefits to the wider community. AFI is conducting Phase 1 of the Scheme, focused on desktop and consultative research, reviewing international best practice management standards for relevant agricultural biodiversity programs.

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