Presentations Index

The links below provide all the presentations from the "Understanding Practice Change by Farmers" symposium in Melbourne on 14 November 2008. In each case, you can view an edited video of the presentation (~ 9 minutes), you can download a video of the complete talk (~ 25 minutes), you can stream or download the audio for the complete presentation, and you can view the speaker's PowerPoint slides.


	Andrew Campbell Setting the Scene: Introductory perspectives	adoption, innovation
	Prof Dave Pannell Understanding Practice Change by Rural Landholders	adoptability, adoption, agriculture, compatibility, complexity, environment, farmer goals, innovation, land management, natural resource management, perceptions, policy, profitability, relative advantage, trialability
	Roger Wilkinson The many meanings of adoption	adoption, agriculture, goals, laggards, relative advantage, Rogers
	Prof Frank Vanclay Understanding extension and practice change over time	adoption, APEN, practice change, Rural extension, social science
	Geoff Kaine Identifying the Potential Adopters of an Agricultural Innovation	adoptability, adoption, agriculture, market segments
	Rick Llewellyn Identifying cogs in the adoption wheel: opportunities to target extension	adoptability, adoption, agriculture, complexity, extension, farmer goals, innovation, perceptions, policy, profitability, relative advantage, trialability
	Graham Marshall What “community” means for farmer adoption of conservation practices: Some logic and evidence.	community, natural resource management, perceptions, policy, social capital, trust
	Neil Barr Joining the dots: climate change, supply chains, rural restructuring and rural practice change	adoption, climate change, demographic change, natural resource management, rural restructuring, social science, supply chains
	Prof Allan Curtis Rural property turnover: trends and NRM implications	adoption, demographic change, environment, natural resource management, rural restructuring, social science
	Prof Dave Pannell Policy perspectives on rural practice change	adoptability, agricultural extension, environment, externalities, incentives, market failure, mechanism choice, natural resource management, policy, policy mechanisms, public benefits, public goods, technology