@article{Banks:120922,
      recid = {120922},
      author = {Banks, Rob},
      title = {Rural decline and innovation: issues within issues; or  what role for AFBM Journal?},
      journal = {AFBM Journal},
      address = {2004},
      number = {1672-2016-136576},
      pages = {7},
      year = {2004},
      abstract = {This paper contains my personal reflections as scientific  editor of the livestock systems and technology section of  the Australian Farm Business and Farming Systems Management  Journal, i.e. AFBM Journal. It is the aim of this paper to  highlight critical issues in defining the framework of  opportunities for authors in the broad area of livestock  systems and technology. The message within the description  of current economic, marketing and technological conditions  for farming is that only a limited proportion (about 20%)  of the farming community has taken the opportunities that  are available to achieve levels of profitability and  efficiency sufficient to break the city: bush gap. However,  when most farmers are working below profitability  benchmarks, their duty of care for the environment cannot  be assured while government organizations do not consider  redistribution of wealth. The final reflections of the  paper endeavour to find out and justify a niche for AFBM  Journal.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/120922},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.120922},
}