Supporting skills in land management
Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund
The Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund will help Indigenous Australians to take full advantage of the Carbon Farming Initiative. Funding will be provided for specialists to work with Indigenous communities on carbon farming projects. The Fund will support the development and uptake of Carbon Farming Initiative activities which are likely to have high Indigenous participation such as savanna fire management.
Further support for research, tools and low cost methods for estimating and reporting on emissions abatement will be available. This Fund will make it easier for Indigenous groups to participate in the Carbon Farming Initiative by addressing barriers associated with communal and native title land tenure.
Carbon Farming Skills
The Carbon Farming Initiative will increase demand for carbon services and provide new career opportunities in rural and regional Australia.
A new nationally accredited qualification will be developed for carbon service providers (such as carbon brokers and aggregators), who will connect farmers and landholders to the carbon market. This initiative will support high standards in an important and emerging industry.
The Carbon Farming Skills program will ensure that there are people in regional Australia with the necessary skills to support implementation of the Carbon Farming Initiative. It will further drive the development of the carbon jobs sector by setting up a training and accreditation system, boosting rural and regional employment.
Information and training workshops will be provided for farm extension officers, catchment management authorities, agronomists and other rural service providers. This will ensure that landholders have access to credible, high quality advice about carbon farming opportunities.
For more information see Chapter 9 – Creating opportunities on the land.
For further information about the Australian Government’s plan for the land see:
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