Drought Resources Database List

Future Beef - Drought Strategy Tool (2025)

https://futurebeef.com.au/resources/drought-strategy/

MLA - More Beef from Pastures PASTORAL online manual (link) - pastoral drought module attached

https://mbfp-pastoral.mla.com.au/

MLA - Elearning Toolbox

https://elearning.mla.com.au/

RCS Free Drought Course

https://www.rcsaustralia.com.au/managing-drought-conversation/

2024.03.08 Fitzroy Crossing Beef Up Forum - David McLean RCS.pdf

FDF - Drought Resilience Funding Plan 2024-2028 Determination 2024

https://www.legislation.gov.au/F2024L00150/asmade/downloads

FDF - Inquiry report 2023 - Productivity Commission - Overview

https://www.pc.gov.au/inquiries/completed/future-drought-fund/report

National Drought Agreement (2024)

https://www.agriculture.gov.au/agriculture-land/farm-food-drought/drought/drought-policy/national-drought-agreement

Australian Government Drought Plan (2024)

https://www.agriculture.gov.au/agriculture-land/farm-food-drought/drought/drought-policy

Northern-Hub

https://northernhub.au/resources

CSIRO - Drought Early Warning System (DEWS) - 2022 report (Part of Drought Resilience Mission)

https://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/research-topics/climate/australian-agricultural-drought-indicators-project

Ag-Tech Factsheets by KPCA for Northern Hub

https://northernhub.au/resources

Dry season management of a beef business - Qld DAF / FutureBeef / DCAP

https://futurebeef.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/J3776-DAF-Dry-season-management-A5_OCT2021_WEB.pdf

Managing drought, fire and flood - a guide for NSW primary producers (2023) - NSW

https://www.droughthub.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/1501848/NSW-Gov-Managing-drought-fire-and-flood.pdf

To hold or sell breeding cattle in the rangelands - WA DPIRD

https://library.dpird.wa.gov.au/ap_factsheets/38/

CSIRO - Water Banking or Managed Aquifer Recharge - infographic (Part of Drought Resilience Mission)

https://www.csiro.au/en/about/challenges-missions/Drought-Resilience/Water-banking

CSIRO - Drought Resilience mission

https://www.csiro.au/en/about/challenges-missions/Drought-Resilience/Mission-progress

Soils for Life case studies

https://soilsforlife.org.au/

WA Rangeland Rehydration Review (2024)

Rangelands NRM Rehydration Resource Library

https://www.rangelandswa.com.au/projects/rehydration-resource-library/

Stages of Drought - Drought model: a deeper explanation (part 1)

https://vicdroughthub.org.au/news-events/blog/drought-model-a-deeper-explanation-part-1

Encouraging on-farm climate
resilience adaptations
A study of barriers, enablers
and recommended approaches

iFarm Well

https://ifarmwell.com.au/

FDF MEL Framework

https://www.agriculture.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/mel-framework.pdf

FDF Investment Strategy

https://www.agriculture.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/fdf_Investment_Strategy_2024-28_FINAL_22JAN.pdf

Pilbara Drought Vulnerability Study

https://www.pdc.wa.gov.au/Profiles/pdc/Assets/ClientData/Pilbara_DVA_Report_-_2024.pdf

MLA - Adoption Dry Ready Resources

https://www.mla.com.au/contentassets/df9fa7775f0546518e6fb485cb336d27/mla-adoption-dry-ready-resources-1123.pdf

Gascoyne RDRP (DRAFT)

Pilbara Kimberly RDRP

Rangelands Living Skin (2024)

https://www.mla.com.au/research-and-development/Grazing-pasture-management/rangelands-living-skin/

Tips for a touch season: Destocking strategies Northern Australia

https://www.mla.com.au/news-and-events/industry-news/archived/2016/tips-for-a-tough-season-destocking-strategies--northern-australia2/

Pastoral Remote Sensing (DPIRD-PRS)

https://www.dpird.wa.gov.au/online-tools/pastoral-remote-sensing/

Status of WA Rangelands (DPIRD)

https://library.dpird.wa.gov.au/lr_publishedrpts/76/

UNISQ - climate change scenario analysis

https://cacs.unisq.edu.au/StationTools

Climate Resilient WA (2022)

https://www.wa.gov.au/system/files/2022-12/Climate-resilient-WA.pdf

Climate Adaptation Strategy - WA (2023)

https://www.wa.gov.au/system/files/2023-07/climate_adaption_strategy_220623.pdf

Unlocking the sustainable transition for agribusiness (UNEP 2025)

http://www.unep.org/resources/report/unlocking-sustainable-transition-agribusiness

Reshaping Australian Food Systems (CSIRO, 2023)

https://www.csiro.au/en/work-with-us/services/consultancy-strategic-advice-services/csiro-futures/agriculture-and-food/reshaping-australian-food-systems

Tools to measure community resilience (Torrens 2013)

https://www.flinders.edu.au/torrens-resilience-initiative/resources

National Disaster Risk Reduction Framework

https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/emergency/files/national-disaster-risk-reduction-framework.pdf

WA Community Disaster Resilience Strategy

https://www.wa.gov.au/government/publications/wa-community-disaster-resilience-strategy

An Agenda for Change: Community-led disaster resilience

https://www.monash.edu/msdi/initiatives/reports/an-agenda-for-change-community-led-disaster-resilience

(Drought) Adoption Officer Review - SNSW Drought Hub (2025)

https://cdn.csu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/4480114/SNSW-Hub-Adoption-Officers-Report.pdf

Grazing management of Australian native woody regeneration as an effective nature-based climate-change solution

https://www.publish.csiro.au/rj/RJ24032

Defining potential pathways for improving the resilience and sustainable
development of rangeland grazing systems: Insights from
northern Australia (Mai et al 2025)

https://research.usq.edu.au/download/97fa1787648e1ca331b4a52894a53d72ad92b41e543219eb24fde5a50eb158f2/5324879/2025_Mai_Reardon-Smith_Cobon_Nguyen-Huy_Mushtaq_STOTEN.pdf

Grazing systems – Recent Findings in Australia (McCosker et al 2021)

https://www.rcsaustralia.com.au/wp-content/uploads/Grazing-systems-–-Recent-Findings-in-Australia-2022.pdf

A half century of Holistic Management: what does the evidence reveal? (Gosnells et al 2020)

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10460-020-10016-w

Beyond sustainability for the Australian pastoral industry (Finlayson, 2008)

https://www.nuffieldscholar.org/sites/default/files/reports/2008_AU_Graham-Finlayson_Beyond-Sustainability-For-The-Australian-Pastoral-Industry-Improving-Profitability-For-The-Family-Farmers-In-The-Rangelands.pdf

Ruminating on soil carbon: Applying current understanding to inform grazing management (Stanley et al 2024)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gcb.17223

A ground cover-based incentive approach to enhancing
resilience in rangelands viewed as complex adaptive systems (Hacker et al 2010)

https://www.publish.csiro.au/rj/RJ10011

Holistic Management Shifts Ranchers’ Mental Models for Successful Adaptive Grazing (Stanley et al 2024)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550742423001264

Challenges and opportunities for grassland restoration: A global perspective of best practices in the era of climate change (Lyons et al 2024)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989423002470

Integrating Behavioral Theories in Agent-Based Models for Agricultural Drought Risk Assessments (Schrieks et al 2021)

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/water/articles/10.3389/frwa.2021.686329/full

Carbon farming for resilient rangelands: people, paddocks
and policy (Baumber et al 2020)

https://www.publish.csiro.au/rj/fulltext/rj20034

Managing grazing to increase ground cover in rangelands: using remote sensing to detect change (McDonald et al 2024)

https://www.publish.csiro.au/rj/pdf/RJ24021

The economics of drought: A review of impacts and costs (CSIRO 2021)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-8489.12527

Achieving drought resilience in the grazing lands of northern Australia: preparing, responding and recovering

https://www.publish.csiro.au/RJ/RJ20058

Grazing and Biodiversity – The Positive Side (2018 - topic)

https://www.publish.csiro.au/rj/collection/12068

The Rangeland Journal Volume 43 Numbers 2 & 3 Special Issue Managing drought and improving business resilience in Australian rangelands (2021)

https://connectsci.au/RJ

Savory Institute - Resource Library

https://savory.global/library/

Hope Below our Feet - Science Compendium

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QR9Xk3aq3soidmob6nS9PMstKcllmRlgpaVDyFzRkwY/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.z6ne0og04bp5

Grazing Intensity - Science Direct Topic

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/grazing-intensity

Kachana Station

https://www.kachana-station.com/

Lachlan Hughes Foundation

https://lachlanhughesfoundation.org.au/links/

Understanding Ag (USA)

https://understandingag.com/resources/

RCS Australia

https://www.rcsaustralia.com.au/case-studies/

WOCAT Sustainable Land Managemnt Database for the UNCCD

https://qcat.wocat.net/en/wocat/

Best Management Practice for extensive grazing enterprises (NSW rangelands, 2005)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237482271_Best_management_practices_for_extensive_grazing_enterprises

Transformative Actions for Community-led disaster resilience (F2F, 2022)

https://www.monash.edu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/3031063/2022-06-24_F2F_ReportBooklet_V4_digital.pdf

Measuring for Success (Farming for the Future 2022)

https://farmingforthefuture.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Farming-for-the-Future-Measuring-for-success-October-2022.pdf

Principles for sustainable resource management in the rangelands (Commonwealth 2010)

https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/land/rangelands/rangelands-policies-and-strategies

Decide and Thrive - NSW

https://www.tnqdroughthub.com.au/project-decide-and-thrive/

Decide and Thrive - NT

https://www.tnqdroughthub.com.au/project-decide-and-thrive/

Decide and Thrive - QLD

https://www.tnqdroughthub.com.au/project-decide-and-thrive/

Drought Resilience Facilitation & Leadership Framework (Uni of Melb, 2023)

https://safes.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/5321176/DroughtResilienceFacilitationandLeadershipFramework_Oct2024.pdf

Empowering Communities,
Harnessing Local Knowledges:
Self-Organising Systems for Disaster
Risk Reduction (Sydney Env Institute, 2024)

https://www.sydney.edu.au/sydney-environment-institute/our-research/climate-disaster-and-adaptation/self-organising-systems-to-minimise-future-disaster-risk.html

Transforming Food and Agriculture through a systems approach (FAO, 2025)

https://doi.org/10.4060/cd6071en

MANAGING SOIL FOR HIGH
PERFORMANCE AFTER A
DROUGHT (Soil CRC 2021)

https://soilcrc.com.au/managing-soil-during-and-after-drought/

Global Land Outlook - Rangelands and Pastoralists (UNCCD 2024)

https://www.unccd.int/resources/global-land-outlook/glo-rangelands-report

Harvesting Change Breaking stigma, building resilience (Vic Farmers Federation 2024)

https://www.makingourfarmssafer.org.au/resources/harvesting-change-rural-mental-health-handbook/

Sustainable Rangeland Management Toolkit for Resilient Pastoral Systems (IUCN 2022)

https://iucn.org/sites/default/files/2023-06/2_compressed.pdf

PARTICIPATORY RANGELAND AND GRASSLAND ASSESSMENT (PRAGA) METHODOLOGY (FAO, 2022)

https://iucn.org/resources/jointly-published/participatory-rangeland-and-grassland-assessment-praga-methodology

Recovering from Drought (FutureBeef 2020)

https://futurebeef.com.au/resources/recovering-from-drought/

Not IF but When: supporting Queensland COmmunities Plan for the Challenges of Drought (Red Cross 2021)

https://www.redcross.org.au/emergencies/drought-resilience-program/

Resources for Dry Times (SNSW Drought Hub 2025)

https://www.csu.edu.au/research/southern-nsw-drought-resilience-hub/drought-resources

Self Herding Guide

https://www.gascoynecatchments.com.au/_files/ugd/8d419e_bbc73e17785948658714cc7c036751a3.pdf

Northern Australia Climate Program - review 2022

https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/103/11/BAMS-D-21-0309.1.xml

Status of the WA pastoral rangelands 2024

https://www.dpird.wa.gov.au/businesses/livestock-farming/pastures-and-grazing/environmental-reports/

Relationships between climate variability, soil moisture, and Australian heatwaves (Perkins et al 2015)

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015JD023592

RUMEN ECOLOGY DRIVING PRODUCTIVITY AND LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY IN
THE SHRUBLANDS OF THE WEST AUSTRALIAN RANGELANDS

https://rangelandsgateway.org/dlio/4259

Spinifex Pastures (Alchin and Fletcher 2025)

Storylines of the Pilbara's future climate (NESP 2023)

https://nesp2climate.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Storylines-of-the-Pilbara.pdf

The water of systems change (2018)

https://www.fsg.org/resource/water_of_systems_change/

State of the Environment Report - Land (2021)

https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/environment-information-australia/soe

Drought Plan Template (NSW DPI 2023)

https://www.droughthub.nsw.gov.au/programs/fbrp/resources-and-tools

Farm Water Management Plan EXAMPLE

https://www.csu.edu.au/research/southern-nsw-drought-resilience-hub/projects/farm-water-management

Ecological and social resilience in Western NSW: Insight from seven years of enterprise based conservation (Compton et al 2010)

https://rangelandsgateway.org/sites/default/files/2021-01/arsbc-2010-compton-ecological.pdf

Drought Resilience, Adaptation and Management Policy framework (UNCCD 2019)

https://www.unccd.int/sites/default/files/relevant-links/2019-09/190906%20UNCCD%20drought%20resilience%20technical%20guideline%20EN.pdf

Grazing management for soil carbon in Australia: a review (McDonald et al 2023)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.119146

Impact of different destocking strategies on the resilience of dry rangelands (Vignal et al 2023)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.10102