Resilient Landscapes Grants Program
The Resilient Landscapes Program grants have been awarded.
The Program funds projects that focus on achieving and measuring transformational change and impact at landscape scale, identify tipping points, or thresholds and demonstrate practices, technologies or approaches to improve management of natural capital and enable farmers to be prepared for, and have the capacity and diversity of options to respond to, drought. The Program provides:
- $40 million in funding through an open competitive grant process for applicants that have formed a consortium.
- grants valued between $2 million up to $6 million.
- funding from 2024-25 until 2029-30.
Successful Projects:
| Lead organisation | Project description | Project locations | Number of consortium members | Grant amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate | This six year program will transform the natural capital of rural lands managed by the ACT farming community. It will deliver three interrelated initiatives to promote practice change and the adoption of proven drought resilience approaches. These initiatives will be supported by baseline data collection on water, soil, carbon, and biodiversity to measure the impact of regenerative practices and nature-based technologies. | ACT | 5 | $2,700,000.00 |
| AG ECON AUSTRALIA PTY LTD | This project analyses economic, environmental, regulatory, and policy opportunities to enhance drought resilience in five irrigated agricultural sectors by incorporating floating solar photovoltaics (FPV) on storage dams across cotton, sugarcane, pecans, ginger, and rice. | NSW and QLD | 16 | $5,970,165.00 |
| The Mulloon Institute Limited | This project will integrate First Nations landscape perspectives and regenerative agricultural practices that embrace complexity & healing. Showcasing scalable demonstrations that build skills & capacity across four catchment communities and two First Nations groups, TIMME is a whole-of-system framework for building resilience, demonstrating how to restore landscape function, healing Country and managing & monitoring natural capital. | NSW and WA | 14 | $5,975,022.00 |
| Central Victorian Biolinks Alliance Inc. | This project aims to enhance drought and climate resilience in the low input grazing systems in southern central Victoria and broadacre cropping-grazing systems in north-west central Victoria by scaling-up the adoption of practices that improve landscape function and ecosystem services. | VIC | 17 | $4,874,545.00 |
| The Western Australian Agriculture Authority | This project directly addresses the issue of farming systems failure in the unique biodiversity region of the West Midlands of WA. Satellite monitoring identifies that this region consistently has large areas with insufficient groundcover to prevent land degradation. Properties with a history of low groundcover will be targeted for intensive support, while the broader farming community will be the focus of a comprehensive strategic development and extension program using a network of local farmer discussion groups with demonstrations of practice change including monitoring of system resilience. | WA | 3 | $3,425,120.00 |
| Western Sydney University | This project sets in place key resources and learnings for transformational change at the landscape scale across NSW by delivering (1) diverse, drought-tolerant seed for revegetation, (2) drought-tolerant ground cover, (3) nature positive biodiversity and soil carbon enhancement, (4) landscape connections that support ecological, social and cultural values, and (5) capacity and knowledge building, including proof of concept to restore natural resources. Restoring regional landscapes with drought resilient ground cover. | NSW | 12 | $5,920,000.00 |
| Invasive Animals Ltd | This Project will deliver a national biocontrol mass-rearing, release, monitoring and evaluation network targeting priority rangeland and aquatic weeds that impact drought resilience in Australia. This project will maximise on-ground socio-economic and environmental resilience outcomes by leveraging approved biocontrol agents and existing applied biocontrol research capability, facilities and stakeholder networks among consortium partners across jurisdictions. | ACT, NSW, QLD, VIC, TAS, SA, WA, NT | 20 | $5,999,999.00 |
| Landcare Tasmania Inc. | This project builds economic, environmental, and social resilience by enhancing natural capital and ecosystem services critical to agricultural productivity and community wellbeing. Through workshops, prioritisation modelling, on-ground restoration and technical support, the project brings together farming communities to co-design and implement drought-resilient practices that improve water retention/quality, biodiversity and landscape connectivity. | TAS | 10 | $3,672,476.00 |
Funding information
Find details of the payment information for the Drought Resilient Landscapes Grants program, as required under Section 27A of the Future Drought Fund Act 2019 below.
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