National Industry-led Carbon Farming Outreach Program

Carbon Farming Outreach Program

26 Nov

Written By Cristy Houghton

Project Funder: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

Project Lead Organisation/Researcher: Grower Group Alliance

Project Durations: 2024-2026

Project Locations: National

Aim

This two year project will deliver a nation-wide carbon farming outreach program, largely in broadacre and pastoral industries.

Led by the Grower Group Alliance, this project unites 40 farming and land management groups from all states and the Northern Territory with a combined partners’ membership of 20,000+ farming businesses.

Grower groups will provide training on a local scale, partnering with farm advisory service providers to deliver trusted, reliable advice to an estimated 3,500+ farming enterprises. Participants will be armed with capacity to reduce emissions, sequester carbon and consider carbon farming opportunities.

Description and background

CWFS

CWFS to facilitate three workshops with industry experts on carbon farming and low-emissions technologies and practices.

National program

160 carbon farming related workshops to be delivered across Australia, based on DCCEEW train-the trainer program
130 trainers comprising staff from 50 grower groups and up to 80 industry professionals to complete the ‘train the trainer’ program, which will enable ongoing knowledge sharing.
Establish Steering Committee & Technical Working Group (TWG)
Nominate participants for DCCEEW training.
Co-design streamlined delivery process with TWG, including templates & materials.
Support consortium in training delivery, provide access to experienced advisors.
Develop advisor capabilities through a community of practice.
Monitor consortium performance, collect data and report to DCCEEW
50 plus awareness-raising events and engagement at six major events to be undertaken
Supporting training package evaluation processes, including providing feedback on gaps in training and collecting and providing to DCCEEW feedback from farmers and land managers.
Information sharing, including sharing tailored resources created and/or case studies and supplying content for communications material (website/newsletter etc).
Participation in Community of Practice, events and networking opportunities to be organised by DCCEEW.

Partnership

Delivered with funding support from the Commonwealth of Australia through the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water under the Carbon Farming Outreach Program

Reports

Current

Cristy Houghton

Cristy's unique career has taken her from country NSW to the city lights of Clarendon Street South Melbourne and back again. With an early career in radio as a copywriter and creative strategist, she is now a Jill of all trades as a graphic designer, website builder, blog writer, video editor, social media manager, marketing strategist and more.

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Cristy has won two Australian Commercial Radio Awards (ACRAs) for Best Ad and Best Sales Promotion, and even has an 'Employee of the Year' certificate with her name on it.

Cristy and her husband James have traveled extensively through Russia, China and South East Asia, and have two fur-babies, Sooty (cat) and Panda (puppy). Cristy loves drinking coffee, meeting people to drink coffee, coffee tasting and coffee flavoured cocktails. She also enjoys road trips, TED Talks and watching cat videos on youtube.

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