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A drought resilient agricultural landscape in the Midlands

Project Status:
Closed
Project location(s):
Northern Midlands and Southern Midlands Local Government Areas
Funding type:
Drought Resilience Grant
Project summary:

This project will develop a regional prioritisation strategy for strategic plantings with the objective of improving animal welfare, biodiversity, drought, and extreme weather resilience on Midlands’ farms. This regional strategy will identify areas where native plantings are most likely to maximize economic and ecological benefits at both regional and farm scales. Ten whole-of-farm drought resilience and planting plans will be prepared for participating properties, including assessments of the potential benefits in terms of natural capital increase. The plans will be partially implemented with a hundred hectares of the highest priority plantings revegetated with native species across the ten farms. The project will be the basis for a range of complementary research projects, notable on water quality, pollinators diversity and natural capital accounting. Finally, the project will contribute content and resources to the knowledge hub being developed by Private Forests Tasmania where landowners can find tools, factsheets, and case-studies to increase drought resilience through strategic plantings on their farms. The project team will work with partners to promote these techniques at a series of workshops.

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Our ParTners

The hub is proud to work with a diverse network of over 20 Industry Partners, Delivery Partners and collaborators to build drought and climate resilience through hub activities. Through this network, we span the entire breadth of the Tasmanian agriculture sector and can support farmers, agricultural businesses and communities.
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Funding & AcknowledgmentS

This program received funding from the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund.

The Australian Government is contributing $12.4 million over 4 years through the Future Drought Fund under various grants. Hub partners and the University of Tasmania will provide co-contributions of an amount at least equal to the Australian Government funding over the same period.

We acknowledge the palawa/pakana people, the traditional custodians of the land upon which we live and work. We honour their enduring culture and knowledges as vital to the self-determination, wellbeing and resilience of their communities.

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