Future Drought Fund: Resilient Landscapes Initiative

The FDF: Resilient Landscapes Program supports long-term, collaborative agricultural projects that implement technologies or approaches to:

• Achieve transformational natural resource management at landscape scale
• Build resilience to prepare for and quickly recover from drought and climate impacts, including:
• Environmental resilience (e.g. management of soil nutrients, groundcover, vegetation, biomass)
• Social resilience (e.g. wellbeing, community cohesion)
• Economic resilience (e.g. revenue, cash flow).
• Provide ecosystem services for the public (e.g. transformation of land and other environmental assets into clean air, water and food).

The total funding pool is $40 million. Grants of $2 million to $6 million are available and cover up to 100% of project costs.

Note: applicants are encouraged to make a cash or in-kind contribution to the project.

Projects must be delivered by a consortium of at least 2 entities. The lead applicant must have an ABN and be one of the following entities:

• Companies
• Cooperatives
• Corporate Commonwealth entities
• Corporate/non-corporate State/Territory entities
• Incorporated associations
• Indigenous Corporations
• Local governments
• Non-corporate State/Territory Statutory Authorities
• Statutory Entities.

Applications close on 19 November 2024.