The Climate Smart Agriculture Program seeks to build resilient grazing landscapes through the adoption of practices that enhance natural capital. The program supports landholder capacity and confidence to meet industry environmental credentials and sustainability frameworks, while positioning them to engage with emerging opportunities in natural capital markets.
QUT is partnering with Healthy Land and Water to deliver comprehensive biodiversity assessments as part of the program’s monitoring and measuring of natural capital activities. The capacity to measure biodiversity reliably and cost-effectively is fundamental to landholder participation in emerging biodiversity markets and critical to understanding which practices protect and promote biodiversity in grazed ecosystems.
The Sustainable Agroecosystems Group at QUT has extensive experience delivering on-farm biodiversity projects using remote monitoring technologies. Through the Climate Smart Agriculture Program, acoustic recorders and camera traps will be deployed, alongside the application of satellite data. This integrated approach will provide farmers with detailed, practical biodiversity data that enables benchmarking and ongoing monitoring of biodiversity over time, supporting both environmental stewardship and market participation.
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