Occasional Paper 2009/01 Institute for Rural Futures, University of New England, Australia June 2009 WHAT DOES ‘COMMUNITY’ MEAN FOR FARMER ADOPTION OF CONSERVATION PRACTICES? SOME LOGIC AND EVIDENCE Graham R. Marshall Preparation of this occasional paper was supported by a grant from the Commonwealth Environmental Research Facilities program for the project ‘Improving economic accountability when using decentralised, collaborative approaches to environmental decisions’. Neither this program nor the Australian Government necessarily shares the views expressed in the paper. Feedback from Tim Cummins, Warren Musgrave, Elinor Ostrom, Ian Reeve and Alistair Watson was valuable in preparing this paper. The author is responsible for remaining deficiencies.