The Federal Government’s Future Drought Fund (FDF) is investing $1.6 million over the next two years for scholarships and training through the country’s leading agricultural scholarship organisation, Nuffield Australia.
The FDF Drought Resilience Scholarship Program is supporting farmers across 2024 and 2025 to increase their knowledge of new tools and practices helping the agricultural sector respond to a changing climate.
Scholars will travel overseas to study drought resilience and learn from international leaders in the field.
The first five Drought Resilience Scholars supported by the FDF were announced recently, for projects investigating:
- the role cattle feedlots can play in helping the beef supply chain prepare for drought;
- solutions to the challenges that hinder the widespread adoption of agroforestry;
- farming more profitably in alignment with natural systems;
- resilience thinking and change in people and communities who have adapted to adverse weather conditions; and
- weaknesses that threaten the viability of the Australian fodder export sector in a water-limited future.
The scholarships provide farmers with a valuable opportunity to gain an international perspective on drought resilience activities. Scholars build drought resilience expertise, adapt innovative technology and practices from overseas, and share these learnings to advance Australian agriculture by better preparing themselves and their communities for drying conditions.
Find out more, and learn how to apply for the 2025 Drought Resilience Scholarship Program, here.
