Local Land Services provides a Sustainable Agriculture Facilitator (SAF) in each region to:
- engage and inform farmers, landholders, community groups and agriculture industries within their region about climate-smart, sustainable agriculture practices
- facilitate partnerships and connections to assist farmers, landholders, community groups and agriculture industries to work together
- support the delivery of the Australian Government Climate-Smart sustainable agriculture projects in their region.
Sustainable Agriculture Facilitators are supported by the Australian Government through funding from the Natural Heritage Trust under the Climate-Smart Agriculture Program.
Connect with your SAF
You can contact your regional Sustainable Agriculture Facilitator for 1:1 advice on principles of sustainable agriculture that might work best for your property and learn about the latest sustainable agriculture practices being used in your region.
You can contact your SAF by calling 1300 795 299 or reach out directly:
- Central Tablelands: Liz Davis | liz.davis@lls.nsw.gov.au | 0427 452 662
- Central West: Bonnie Mitchell | bonnie.mitchell@lls.nsw.gov.au | 0447 185 133
- Greater Sydney: Richard Stephens | richard.stephens@lls.nsw.gov.au | 0436 803 337
- Hunter: admin.hunter@lls.nsw.gov.au
- Murray: Kathleen Bartlett | kathleen.bartlett@lls.nsw.gov.au
- North Coast: Genevieve Murphy | genevieve.murphy@lls.nsw.gov.au
- North West: Lana Andrews | lana.andrews@lls.nsw.gov.au
- Northern Tablelands: Marijke Hartman | marijke.hartman@lls.nsw.gov.au
- Riverina: Jade Auldist | jade.auldist@lls.nsw.gov.au
- South East: Henry Goodall | henry.goodall@lls.nsw.gov.au | 0438 744 267
- Western: Christine Plummer | christine.plummer@lls.nsw.gov.au | 0408 241 200
Climate-Smart agriculture projects
Local Land Services works with landholders, community groups and agriculture industries to support and educate about climate-smart, sustainable agriculture practices.
Our support includes:
- best practice natural resource management
- biodiversity and carbon markets
- practices that support emission reductions and build climate resilience on-farm.
Find out more about the projects underway.
- Central West farm benchmarking project
- Supporting sustainable grazing practices
- Improving soil condition and management practice
- North Coast Climate Smart Agriculture
- Farmers adapting to risks and markets (FARM) project
- Growing Climate Smart Agriculture in the Northern Tablelands
- Building a climate-smart ag future
- Valuing natural assets on farms
- Sustainable productive landscapes
- Integrating local knowledge to boost farm productivity and resilience
Funding
Sustainable Agriculture Facilitators and associated projects are supported by the Australian Government through funding from the Natural Heritage Trust under the Climate-Smart Agriculture Program.
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