Smart grazing, stronger lands - Building grazing & land management capacity across Australia's Southern Rangelands

This project assists pastoralists and land managers throughout Australia's Southern Rangelands to adopt proven climate-smart decision support tools and technologies to improve grazing management and ecosystem health. Despite large investments in tool development, adoption has been slow due to time constraints, lack of confidence in technology use, and the need for hands-on support. 

This project brings together Regional NRM, Grower group, and community organisations to deliver tailored, locally driven support through training, peer-to-peer learning, and expert guidance. Demonstration sites will build confidence and capacity, showcasing real-world application of tools and technologies. 

Covering 1.5 million square kilometres of Australia's Southern Rangelands, the project builds the capacity of Regional NRM, grower group, and community organisations and facilitates pastoralist and land manager adoption of proven rangelands gazing and land management tools and technologies.

The Smart Grazing, Stronger Lands project is supported by the Australian Government through funding from the Climate-Smart Agriculture Program under the Natural Heritage

Trust.

The project is led by Adelaide University through the SA Drought Hub in partnership with Charles Sturt University through the Southern NSW Innovation Hub, Grower Group Alliance

through the South-West WA Drought Hub, South Australian Arid Lands Landscape Board, DustWatch, CSIRO, NSW Local Land Services, Rangelands NRM, Gascoyne Pilbara Rangelands Initiative, Southern Rangelands Pastoral Alliance, and the Goldfields Nullarbor Rangelands Biosecurity Association.

Local service providers with grazing management expertise will also play a role in delivery.