Australian Farm Institute 2019 Roundtable

Session: History and future of ecosystem services

Facilitator: AFI Executive Director Richard Heath

Guest speaker: Mick Keogh, Deputy Chair of Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

Presentation summary:

Mick Keogh told the AFI Roundtable that Government attempts to establish markets that pay farmers to protect the environment fall short of what’s needed to achieve good outcomes. He said increasing market-based incentives and minimising regulation have the potential to generate significant environmental benefits and help drought-proof farm income but making this happen will be a major policy challenge for the farm sector.

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farminstitute.org.au/news-and-events/ART_2019/Roundtable-2019-speakers

Weekly Times article: https://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/news/national/environmental-deregulation-accc-supports-marketbased-incentives/news-story/0146e40e7b51ce11a5e84a2ff2d6434e

Download the Spring 2019 Farm Policy Journal edition on “Managing agriculture’s ecosystem services”

http://farminstitute.org.au/publications/journal/farm-policy-journal-spring-2019

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