A professional development climate course for sustainable agriculture in Australia

摘要: There are few professional development courses in Australia for the rural sector concerned with climate variability, change and sustainable agriculture. The lack of educators a sound technical background science its applications agriculture prevents delivery either stand‐alone or embedded other courses, adversely affects ability graduating students to apply information. This paper presents evidence from course 20 consultants results from: surveys at training workshop; questionnaire 12 months post‐workshop; combined interview survey two years post‐workshop. key finding was that specifically addressing essential, while topics should include weather, impacts on agricultural systems, strategic thinking planning options available business. A project undertaken by profess...