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About Rick Llewellyn
Rick Llewellyn is a Senior Research Scientist (Farming Systems) with CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems based at the Waite Campus, Adelaide. He has an Agricultural Science degree from the University of Adelaide and a PhD (with Distinction) from the School of Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of Western Australia.
His research into the adoption of integrated weed management by grain growers received the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics PhD Research Prize in 2003. Prior to joining CSIRO he was a lecturer in agricultural systems and extension at the University of Western Australia. He has led adoption and farming systems research projects funded by the GRDC, CRC Australian Weed Management and ACIAR.
Current research includes developing strategies for more extensive adoption of no till and conservation farming in cropping regions of Australia, and through the CRC Future Farm Industries he leads the national EverCrop project and the development of new tools to evaluate and develop adoptability of new agricultural and NRM technologies.
View symposium presentation: Identifying Cogs in the Adoption Wheel - Opportunities to Target Extension
Abstract
The presentation will use examples from Australian agriculture to demonstrate the steps by which key factors
influencing the adoption of particular practices. Rick will examine how these influences can be identified and used to effectively target extension delivery and strategies for research and development. Emerging opportunities to reduce learning costs and constraints to more rapid adoption decisions will also be presented.
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