Future Drought Fund Resilient Landscapes Program

The Resilient Landscapes Program will focus on demonstrating how implementing and scaling of practices, technologies or approaches to manage natural resources on farm, contribute to building drought and climate resilience by improving landscape function and ecosystem services.

The Program will support implementation and scaling of activities that identify and manage natural capital tipping points or thresholds on farm for the public good of the Australian agriculture sector, landscapes, and communities.

Drought and climate resilience will be increased by projects that:

• achieve and measure impact at scale
• integrate environmental, economic, and social drought resilience
• target opportunities for long-term transformational change
• enable farmers to be prepared for and respond to drought
• promote learning and build capacity.

$40 million is available through an open competitive grant process for projects between $2 million and $6 million. Activities must be undertaken over 6 years from 2024–25 until 2029–30.

Applications must involve a consortium of partners, with a lead organisation nominated as the ‘applicant’. Each applicant must develop a theory of change for the project.

This grant opportunity is expected to be open for up to 8 weeks. An information webinar will be held in early October for prospective applicants.
Program details may change with the published grant opportunity.