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Number 3, November 2009  \nLearning to be drier in dryland country  \nErica Smith University of Ballarat  \nCoral Campbell  \nDeakin University  \nThis research project, part of a much larger study, considered how people in regional communities learnt to deal with the impact of reduced water availability as a result of drought or climate change. The communities in theMallee-Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia, were the focus of this study and a range of local people from different sectors ofthe communities were involved in interviews, which became our main data source. We recognise the limitation that not all viewpoints could possibly be accessed in the participant selection process. The resultant data indicated that significant changes were being made to local practices as a result of the learning taking place and that there were a range of processes which enabled adult learning across the communities.  \nIntroduction  \nThis paper looks at learning about living with drier conditions in an area which has always been comparatively dry. The Wimmera-Mallee region, in north-west Victoria, while in the past a productive wheat and sheep agricultural area, has survived over the years without major sources of water apart from rainfall. No large rivers run through the area, although the Murray runs along the northern Mallee northern border. The rivers that exist are intermittent and the ‘terminal’ lakes are not dependable and increasingly saline. Farmers are therefore dependent largely on seasonal rainfall although there is a stock and domestic system in place that delivers water by channels from the Grampians-Wimmera-Mallee (GMW) water authority, which is now in the process of changing to a piped system as will be explained in the paper. The northern part of the region has significantly lower rainfall than the south, and the drier conditions experienced in the past decade have therefore been a greater change for people in the south of the region.  \nThe research was carried out in the southern part of the Mallee region and northern Wimmera. Here there are four larger towns, each in the order of a thousand people and each separated by about half an hour’s driving distance. Each town has a range of basic services:  \nshops, agricultural suppliers, hotels, and secondary school and so on; but with some discernible differences in prosperity and population age structure among the towns, with one (Town B in Table 1) having a larger number of younger families, as reported by respondents. No significant rain had fallen in several years before the research took place (remembrances ofthe number of years since significant rain varied among respondents); but, both ironically and excitingly, heavy rain fell on the second day of our first visit in April 2009 and reasonable rain continued between then and the second visit in July, at which time the landscape had taken on a completely different aspect, with good rains continuing into Spring 2009.  \n522 Erica Smith and Coral Campbell Learning to be drier in dryland country 523  \nBackground and literature review  \nThe background against which this case study should be viewed can be briefly summarised as follows. Australian farming has undergone a radical transformation in recent decades. A combination of an increasingly global agricultural marketplace and cycles of drought have led to an uncertain outlook for farmers. Family farms are increasingly becoming consolidated in larger holdings, some of which are owned by large companies rather than by individuals. These changes have major impacts for farmers and their families and an increasing trend towards off-farm working for family members (eg Alston, 1995). 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