About Landcare Farming
The Landcare Farming Program (LFP) is a joint partnership between the National Landcare Network and Landcare Australia and funded by the Australian Government to strengthen the connection between Landcare and Australian agriculture.
The LFP strategy, and subsequent projects, will support improved landholder and producer-led involvement in natural resource management for enhanced agriculture, ecosystem and community resilience outcomes.
Our goal is to create a national Landcare Farming strategy which supports a single Australian Landcare voice.
LFP will provide landholders and producers with a program to identify with and a vehicle to address natural resource management challenges using the latest research and to promote the positive impact we have on improving soil, water and biodiversity health.
Our aim is to provide an independent community of practise for landholders and producers, one which shares the latest research, resources and decision-support tools directly with them.
It will utilise this network of producers to test, review and provide feedback to researchers, thus ensuring the latest RDE&A is ground-truthed and tailored to local conditions. LFP will provide a central, independent and national community of practise of landholders and producers to drive identification and producer adoption of evidence-based best management practices for sustainable natural resource use and building resilient regional communities – with a common set of performance indicators to justify our ongoing stewardship and sustainable landscape management.
To help design the program we sought input from each State and Territory Landcare Peak Organisation (STO) and their representatives, ensuring the opportunities and activities identified within the LFP strategy aligns with the strengths, capacity and local focus or interests of grassroot producers, while ensuring alignment and advancement of Australian agriculture RDE&A and industry sustainability reporting strategies.
Landcare Farming acknowledges Landcare’s role in building awareness and uptake of best management farming and natural resource management practices to improve capacity and resilience. In doing so, the LFP partnership has been able to mesh grassroot feedback with industry and government sustainability strategies and their reporting needs. Read the Landcare Farming Discussion Paper here.
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About Landcare Agriculture
To explore the Landcare Agriculture Program (Landcare Ag) a trusted and vital bridge between the agricultural and environmental sectors, facilitating collaboration for mutual benefit please visit the Landcare Australia - Landcare Agriculture website here.
For more information on the Landcare Agriculture Program contact Landcare Agriculture Manager Angela Hammond at ang.hammond@landcareaustralia.com.au
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