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Main Issues Rural Women Experience With Information & Communication Technology, Teresa Maiolo
Main Issues Rural Women Experience With Information & Communication Technology, Teresa Maiolo
Research outputs pre 2011
This brief report will outline the main issues rural women encountered with information and communications technology. This information was derived from interviewing twenty-one rural women from the South West, Eastern Goldfields, Murchison, Gascoyne, and Kimberley regions of Western Australia. Recommended actions are given to address each of the main issues.
The Australian Family Farm: Is It Soon To Be An Illusive Myth?, Fiona M.H. Mckenzie
The Australian Family Farm: Is It Soon To Be An Illusive Myth?, Fiona M.H. Mckenzie
Research outputs pre 2011
This paper examines the challenges faced by Western Australian rural enterprises since 1961 and the effects of economic and demographic change on the agricultural industry over the last thirty years.
Increasing capitalisation and technological advances have led to major shifts in the way the business of farming is conducted. There is evidence to suggest that these changes have contributed to an oversupply of agricultural products, the development of large-scale agri-business firms and a general depopulation of the agricultural sector.
The family farm has always been considered the backbone of Australian agriculture but there is evidence to suggest that in this …