Discussion Papers

Welcome to the "Discussion Papers" section of AFBMNetwork webpage.

This section offers to AFBMNetwork members the opportunity to publish in the net, with their recognised authorship, any type of papers that encourage discussion and exchange of ideas on issues of wider interest to the membership, and a world-wider audience.

AFBMNetwork members may use this folder of the webpage to link it to their personal webpages, and to the specific papers they have therein available for public reading. The papers that can be placed in this section may be documents already published somewhere else or drafts of likely publishable documents in refereed journals, conferences, industry meetings, lectures, workshops or the personal work of any of the members of the Network. Farmers and agribusiness managers may use this means as an opportunity to let the outside know what their thoughts are about specific issues of their interest. Academics, researchers and extension officers may find herein an excellent primary opportunity to test their draft ideas for further publication. Farm business consultants always have interesting comparative analysis of performance that die on top of their desks. Why not to put all these good things in a simple format with a title, author(s) identification, contact means and body of the document ? There will not be a review process of these documents and the Editorial Team of the webpage will only look for the essential default formatting of the webpage.

This section has a twofold purpose. First to offer a wider range of services to AFBMNetwork members, and second to make AFBMNetwork member publications wider acknowledged in order to benefit the members with the feedback of the readers, and make the reading audience more aware of the skills of AFBMNetwork members.

How can you access the discussion papers ?

Using the Harvard System of Referencing the papers will be alphabetically listed by authors hereafter. All what an intending reader has to do is to click in the first author's surname to gain access to the full paper. Afterwards, enjoy the reading and please come back to the author(s) with your comments if you wish so !!!

In order to start the Discussion Papers section we have placed hereafter some of the papers "close to our hands" hoping this will encourage AFBMNetwork members to come with many more papers and ideas.

Code	Discussion Papers	Special Notes
AFBMN DP001-150304	Charry AA and Parton KA 2002 (100kb PDF file), 'Can a Farm Management model be developed in the context of university education and research that integrates human, economic, technical and ecological components in a sustainable manner?' email: acharry@csu.edu.au	Discussion paper presented to the 2002 Farm Management Workshop, The University of Sydney, Faculty of Rural Management, Orange, NSW.
AFBMN DP002-150304	Charry AA, Kemp DR and Lawrie, JW 2003 (168kb PDF file), 'Alpacas and ecosystems management' in Proceedings of the 14th International Farm Management Congress, August 11-15 2003, International Farm Management Association, Perth, WA. email: acharry@csu.edu.au
AFBMN DP003-150304	Charry AA, Cox R, Parton KA, Crockett J, Johnson S, Bone Z and Whiteley W 2003 (90kb PDF file), 'Farm Management in Australia: The way forward' in Proceedings of the 14th International Farm Management Congress, August 11-15 2003, International Farm Management Association, Perth, WA. email: acharry@csu.edu.au
AFBMN DP004-150304	Kemp DR and Girdwood J 2002 (97kb PDF file), 'Where is Farm Management?'Discussion paper presented to the 2002 Farm Management Workshop, The University of Sydney, Faculty of Rural Management, Orange, NSW. email: dkemp@csu.edu.au	This paper is a draft expected to be improved for submission in a refereed journal
AFBMN DP005-250504	Wilson R, Charry AA and Kemp DR 2004 ' Whole Farm Financial Performance Indicators and Benchmarks in Australian Agriculture: A Review ', The University of Sydney, Faculty of Rural Management, Orange,NSW. email: rwilson@csu.edu.au	This paper is the first in a series of four; and it is a draft expected to be improved for submission in an extension refereed journal. Critical comments from readers are appreciated.
AFBMN DP006 - 250504	National Farmers Union - Canada 2003, "The Farm Crisis, Bigger Farms, and the Myths of "Competition" and " Efficiency", 20 November 2003, NFU, Saskatoon, Sask, Canada. email: qualman@nfu.ca	Paper published with the authorisation of Darrin Qualman, Director of Research, National Farmers Union-Canada,010604