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Food and fibre production: an Aboriginal perspective

Text Food and fibre production: an Aboriginal perspective

TLF ID A002111

This resource investigates historical Australian Aboriginal agricultural production. Chapters include: Aboriginal agriculture- Firestick farming, Cultivation and cropping and aquaculture, Farming and living to the calendar, and the environmental impacts of firestick farming. Suggested answers document also available. The resource has been developed to support NSW Stage 5 and 6 syllabuses.

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Educational details

Educational value
  • Teaching and learning
Year level

9; 10; 11; 12

Topics Aboriginal technologies Land custodianship Occupations (Work) Agriculture Environmental management Environmental sustainability Aquaculture Attitudes Ethics Designers Environmental stewardship Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
Learning area
  • Technologies
  • Design and Technologies
  • Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Geography

Other details

Contributors
  • Author
  • Person: Meg Dunford
  • Description: Author
  • Contributor
  • Person: Meg Dunford
  • Description: Author
  • Publisher
  • Name: NSW Government Department of Primary Industries
  • Organization: NSW Government Department of Primary Industries
  • Description: Publisher
  • Address: NSW, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.dpi.nsw.gov.au
  • Resource metadata contributed by
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
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Learning Resource Type
  • Text
Rights
  • © State of NSW through the Department of Industry 2018, except where indicated otherwise. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).