Protecting Australia’s food future: shared responsibility for biosecurity

该项目旨在调查澳大利亚在生物安全方面的“共同责任”方法是否能够面对外来病虫害日益增长的威胁。通过对政策文件的分析和半结构化访谈的使用，本项目旨在有助于更深入地了解影响生物安全实施的组织间和组织内特征。预期成果包括对共同承担责任的办法保护农业粮食生产免受生物威胁的能力的重要见解，以及可能需要的体制变革形式，以加强对这些威胁的反应能力。这反过来将有利于澳大利亚的生物安全系统。

This project aims to investigate whether Australia’s ‘shared responsibility’ approach to biosecurity is capable of facing the growing threat from exotic pests and diseases. Through the analysis of policy documents and the use of semi-structured interviews, this project intends to contribute to a deeper understanding of the inter- and intra-organisational characteristics that influence implementation of biosecurity. Expected outcomes include crucial insights into the capacity of a shared responsibility approach to protect agri-food production against biological threats, and the forms of institutional change that may be needed to enhance responsiveness to those threats. This in turn will benefit Australia's biosecurity system.