Author(s)

K.W.J. Malafant and D.P. Fordham

Abstract

In southern Australia, irrigated agriculture faces a number of problems including salinity and waterlogging, increasing water prices and low commodity prices. Urgent policy decisions must be made by resource managers and regional communities to provide a framework for the future shape of irrigated agriculture in these regions. The Irrigation Futures Framework (IFF?) is an integrated scenario modelling framework linking biophysical, production and socio-economic models for exploring future conditions in irrigation regions. A biophysical component simulates surface and subsurface water and salt movement to evaluate soil salinity, waterlogging and salt export from the catchment. A production component determines the potential detrime

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