Adapting farms to changing climate and markets
Climate change will alter environments, impacting primary production; Strategy fosters resilience and opportunity.
Climate change will have a significant impact on the environment in the coming decades.
More extreme weather, and changes in rainfall, temperature, frosts, and ocean temperatures will affect primary production (yields, crop viability, harvest scheduling).
This Strategy includes a plan for the future viability of the Cradle Coast region’s natural, cultural and production landscapes, to encourage resilience to change and realise opportunity through change.
Emerging markets and opportunities for carbon storage in soils and vegetation provide mechanisms for land managers to profit from restorative and sustainable land management.
Outcome:
By 2030, 30 % of land managers have increased awareness and improved capacity to adapt to significant changes in climate, have improved knowledge of emerging markets, or have improved capacity in disaster preparedness, compared to 2020 levels.
Local threats that can be addressed by NRM actions:
- Regional climate regime shift
- Market shifts
- Extreme weather events
- Land use change
- Land use intensification
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Implementation:
Investment Opportunity
- Australian Government
- Tasmanian Government
- Regional or Local
- Private or philanthropic
Potential Delivery Methods
- Information gathering activities including supporting flood mapping, threat assessment, market assessment and BMP benchmarking.
- Policy and planning activities including disaster recovery planning.
- On-ground works including bank stabilisation in flood prone areas, new weed management,
coastal dune stabilisation. - Behaviour-change and capacity-building activities such as BMP education and support,
Change to: Property Management Planning (PMP) facilitation, extension to landholders and
communities focused on disaster preparedness, climate change awareness, threat mitigation,
sustainability education.
Potential collaborators
Opportunity for Community Participation
Engagement with landholders including through the development of extension and education materials and website resources; field days and public events.
Actions:
LR1.a
Improve land managers’ knowledge of climate change impacts and access to information and networks to support farm business sustainability and profitability both now and into the future.
LR1.b
Improve smallholder, part-time and new land managers’ knowledge of best land management practices, biosecurity threats, climate change impacts and access to information and networks to support farm sustainability and Best Management Practice (BMP) implementation.
LR1.c
Increase awareness of threats of increased frequency and intensity of extreme climatic events and build the capacity of land managers in disaster preparedness.
LR1.d
Actively support disaster recovery programs to maintain and build long-term resilience of farming and productive landscapes.
LR1.e
Seek opportunities to work with land managers, councils and community groups to consider the circular economy and minimise waste entering landfills and the environment.