Abstract
This article considers the scope for riparian-based agroforestry in the broadacre agricultural landscape of Australia, which has been highly modified in the 200 years since European settlement. Approximately 33 per cent of native vegetation in the intensively used areas has been cleared or substantially modified, and the sheep-wheat belt suffers from land and water salinisation, soil acidification and erosion, and the decline of instream and terrestrial biodiversity. There is a lack of clarity about the role of riparian-based agroforestry in achieving broader catchment management objectives, and a paucity of research on the sustainable harvesting of wood and non-wood products from riparian lands. This article advocates the need to rethink policy and research directions for the rehabilitation of riparian lands within a catchment-scale context to better inform on- ground actions at the property level.
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