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The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world.

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Banner image: dry, cracked soil with new vegetation shoots, with text overlay that says: Management to maintain and improve the productivity of Australian soils

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A field showing the patterns where erosion banks have been formed.

MASaLA research aims to increase certainty for decision makers in natural resource management by providing baselines, soil condition targets and seasonal predictions of processes threatening the function of Australian soils.

  • Lake George, NSW.

    CSIRO Land and Water is researching ways to better manage Australia's land and water resources, and improve the quality of our natural and built environments.

  • Housing development adjacent to agricultural production.  The growing demand for land by these two uses requires considered planning to achieve on-going sustainability in Australia.

    CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems (CSE) conducts research and development across a range of landscapes, targeting social, economic and environmental sustainability.

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  • Plant and insect communities are being re-established in conservation areas

    Our research aims to better understand the ecological processes and organisms that support agriculture and native vegetation. The work is important to their management as ecologically sustainable systems.

  • Murrumbidgee River with lucerne and wheat crops near Wagga Wagga, New South Wales.

    CSIRO Entomology's research is helping to manage the increasing threat from invasive species and the benefits to agriculture from ecosystem services.

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Contacts

Dr Neil McKenzie
Chief
Land and Water
Phone: 61 2 6246 5922 
Fax: 61 2 6246 5913 

Dr Brian Keating
Director
Sustainable Agriculture Flagship
Phone: 61 7 3214 2261 
Fax: 61 7 3214 2308 

Mr Mike Grundy
Theme Leader
Land and Water
Phone: 61 7 3214 2909 
Alt Phone: 0419 718 058 
Fax: 61 7 3214 2308