Grower attitudes and practices toward area-wide management of cropping weeds in Australia

The mobility of weeds, use of biological controls and spread of herbicide resistance mean that weed management is a landscape-scale problem. Area-wide management (AWM) presents one approach for land managers, industry and government representatives to collaborate to manage weeds across public and private properties. Such an approach has been successfully used for other landscape-scale problems, such as managing animal and insect pests.

This study aims to identify what individual, community and institutional factors are associated with growers’ participation in collaborative weed management in three cropping regions of Australia.

Schrader, S., Graham, S., Campbell, R., Height, K., & Hawkes, G. (2024). Grower attitudes and practices toward area-wide management of cropping weeds in Australia. Land Use Policy, 137, 107001. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.LANDUSEPOL.2023.107001