A major study for the Cotton Catchment Communities Co-Operative Research Centre (CRC) is now complete and available to download on their website www.cottoncrc.org.au

The study explores the relationship between community wellbeing and cotton growing in the Murray-Darling Basin...

particularly in the face of reduced water availability due to policy and climate change. Social Impact Assessment and cost benefit analysis will be used to document and understand likely impacts, particularly of the Federal Government’s buyback of water entitlements from willing sellers, at different geographic scales including the farm, community, Basin and Nation.