What is AFBMNetwork?
The Australian Farm Business Management Network (i.e. AFBMNetwork)
is a non-profit organisation encompassing individuals and institutions
related to farm business management and farming systems.
Within its vision AFBMNetwork aims to create a sense
of destiny among its members for a holistic and sustainable management
of the farming resources and ecosystems of Australia; pursuing the implementation
of farming systems matched to the ecological, sociological, economic
and policy-making conditions of the Australian environment.
AFBMNetwork's mission is to have a consultative character
to promote quality education, research, consultancy and extension services
for the primary sector of Australia.
How did AFBMNetwork come into being?
AFBMNetwork is the outcome of the National Farm Management
Workshop organised and sponsored by The University of Sydney late in
2002. The Workshop brought together leading farmers, agribusiness corporate
managers, professional farm business consultants, academics, researchers
and extension officers, who, among other issues, suggested the creation
of a corporate body to bring together the different streams of the primary
sector related to farm business and farming systems management.
The University of Sydney fostered the creation of
this network; thus, with the support of Curtin University of Technology,
Muresk "Agribusiness" Institute, The University of Melbourne
and Marcus Oldham College, a group of enthusiastic professional farmers
and other professionals related to farm business management and farming
systems, the AFBMNetwork was created.
Please click below for information about the organisational structure
and philosophy of AFBMNetwork
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