About the Programs
The innovation of Sustainable Farm Families (SFF) has been to contextualise farm family health in the familiar triple bottom line farm-reporting format.
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- All SFF Program Locations across Australia
- Victoria - Health and Well-being for Farmers in a Climate of Change (New) 2008 - 2011
- Western Australia Program 2008 - 2010
- Victorian Program 2007-2010
- Tasmania Program 2008 -2010
- Remote Australia Programs (Aria 4 & 5) 2006 - 2008
- Cotton and Sugar Program 2006-2007 and 2010
- Dairy Program 2005 - 2007
- Broadacre Program 2004-2006 and 2010
About Sustainable Farm Families
A major issue facing agricultural industries is the health of the industry’s human resource (farmers). Farmers are ageing, working harder, longer and increasingly relying on family members to provide the extra labour needed to cope. Farmers also experience higher injury and earlier illness and death. The SFF program aims to address the health, well being and safety issues facing the farming industries through a sustainable and evidence-based program with solid research and cross-sector collaboration.
The Sustainable Farm Families Objectives are:
•Identify and track farming family health indicators for inclusion in Farm Management quality assurance processes.
•Design and deliver a training program that assists farming families to identify strategies to enhance individual, family health and relevant OH&S practices.
•Communicate program findings to farming families and the health and agricultural sectors.
•Provide information on the relationship between family health, health as a social issue in rural communities and farm productivity.
The research data and information collected will provide critical insight to the relationships between the farmer, their health, their farm and farming sustainability
SFF is a program that is changing:
•Attitudes and behaviour to personal health and safety
•Behaviour of farming families
•Health outcomes for farm families
•Rural health practice through training of health providers