Climate-Smart Agriculture Program: Capacity Building Grants in Australia (Round 2)

Objectives

• The Capacity Building grants will contribute to the Natural Heritage Trust’s Climate-Smart Agriculture Program’s outcomes by supporting farmers to have better access to knowledge and skills relating to best practice climate-smart sustainable agriculture approaches.
• It will also increase the capacity and capability of community, regional Natural Resource Management and comparable organisations, Landcare groups, First Nations groups and organisations, and industry partnerships to assist farmers to adopt climate-smart and sustainable agriculture practices.

Funding Information

• Round 2 of the Capacity Building grant opportunity will provide up to $16.58 million (GST exclusive) over 3 years from 2025-26 to 2027-28.
  • The minimum grant amount is $250,000 (GST exclusive).
  • The maximum grant amount is $3,000,000 (GST exclusive).

Outcomes

• Outcome 1: farmers and land holders have increased awareness, knowledge and skills of best practice climate-smart sustainable agriculture approaches.
• Outcome 2: community, Landcare groups, First Nations peoples and industry have increased capacity and capability to assist farmers and land holders to adopt climate-smart and sustainable agriculture practices.
• Outcome 3: the agriculture sector is utilising proven climate-smart and sustainable agriculture practices, initiatives and information sources to increase adoption at scale.

Eligibility Criteria

• To be eligible you must:
  • have an Australian Business Number (ABN)
  • be a permanent resident of Australia
  • have an account with an Australian financial institution
  • be financially viable
  • be located in Australia.
• Also, you must be one of the following entity types:
  • Company
  • Cooperative
  • Corporate Commonwealth Entity
  • Corporate State or Territory Entity
  • Incorporated Association
  • Indigenous Corporation
  • Local Government
  • Non-corporate State or Territory Entity
  • Non-corporate State or Territory Statutory Authority
  • Sole Trader
  • Statutory Entity.

For more information, visit Australian Government.