This program is increasing community awareness and understanding of weed issues. The program promotes community and landholder involvement in new weed management strategies, in an effort to increase the adoption of research findings.

The program does this by using publications, workshops, field days, this website and the media to achieve these outcomes.

Review of the value of programs of the CRC for Australian Weed Management
Stage 1 and 2 assessments: Education & Communication programs & programs impacting on threats to the environment

This independent report by ACIL Tasman concluded that the Cooperative Research Centre for Australian Weed Management (Weeds CRC) produced significant weed prevention and control benefits that would not have been generated, to the same extent and in the same time scales, in the absence of the Weeds CRC's activities on education, communication and environmental weeds.

The analysis delivered a reasonably robust assessment that activities within these areas have been critical in supporting reasonably tangible benefits of some tens of millions of dollars. These benefits have been enabled by expenditures of the order of $47m (cash and in kind contributions), while drawing on capability from many sources.

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Market Attitude Research Services conducted an investigation into community awareness and attitudes about weeds as a significant problem in Australia for the Weeds CRC in 2003 and again in 2008, including focus group discussions and national telephone surveys of metropolitan and regional cities. Their findings are presented here

Program Leader
Mr Peter Martin
Weeds CRC, Adelaide