| The sustainability of agriculture will be influenced by the extent to which socially viable communities can be maintained in rural areas. If that viability is lost it will be difficult to retain a sufficient quantity and quality of human resources in areas to sustain agricultural productivity at optimum levels. A decline of population per se will not necessarily reduce the sustainability of agriculture but when population declines to an extent whereby key local services are removed then the decline in quality of life for those who remain makes it difficult to retain the number and type of workers in agriculture that are required to maintain optimum productivity. | |
| Funding: | Centre for Social Applications of GIS (GISCA) |
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| Participants: | Prof Graeme Hugo Chris Rudd (GISCA) Emma Baker (CSIRO) |
| Completion date: | October 1997 |
| Publications: | Results |