Natural Heritage Trust's Climate-Smart Agriculture Program - Capacity Building Grants Round 2

Overview

The Australian Government is inviting organisations via an open competitive process to apply to deliver projects under the Natural Heritage Trust’s Climate-Smart Agriculture Program – Capacity Building Grants Round 2. Objectives: The Capacity Building grants will contribute to the Natural Heritage Trust’s Climate-Smart Agriculture Program’s outcomes by supporting farmers to have better access to knowledge and skills relating to best practice climate-smart sustainable agriculture approaches. It will also increase the capacity and capability of community, regional Natural Resource Management and comparable organisations, Landcare groups, First Nations groups and organisations, and industry partnerships to assist farmers to adopt climate-smart and sustainable agriculture practices.  Intended outcomes: Outcome 1: farmers and land holders have increased awareness, knowledge and skills of best practice climate-smart sustainable agriculture approaches. Outcome 2: community, Landcare groups, First Nations peoples and industry have increased capacity and capability to assist farmers and land holders to adopt climate-smart and sustainable agriculture practices. Outcome 3: the agriculture sector is utilising proven climate-smart and sustainable agriculture practices, initiatives and information sources to increase adoption at scale.