Agricultural production, including cotton production, is an increasingly complex business requiring continuous adaptation to changing circumstances. Resilience thinking is an approach designed to understand a complex and changing operating environment and maintain capacity to manage future challenges. It is now being widely adopted globally to help communities, industries and governments alike deal with uncertain futures.
CRDC commissioned this resilience assessment of the Australian cotton industry at multiple scales to better understand how to best adapt to change and identify critical threats and opportunities for the industry, and strategically target investment and resources. This resilience assessment is structured around the three scales of cotton production in Australia – the farm, the region and whole of industry.
The Assessment was launched at the Australian Cotton Conference in August 2016.
Two animations have been created to explain resilience thinking and the findings from the Assessment.
