BENEFITS project: Pathways for building on-farm natural capital
The Biodiversity, Ecosystems, Net Emissions and Forestry ITemiSation of wool farms (BENEFITS) project, funded by the Australian Wool Innovation, is working with sheep farmers to co-develop profitable, sustainable, practical pathways for reducing farm greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while improving profitability and biodiversity of sheep farms.
Project overview:
Recruit four regenerative agriculture sheep farms and two conventionally managed farms.
Calibrate base models for a number of on-ground activities.
Use modelled outcomes to determine if regenerative agriculture approaches store more carbon.
Design two thematic adaptions per farm.
Provide information to farmers and industry in the South Coast region and across Australia on whether regenerative agriculture approaches reduce GHG emissions, are more profitable and/or impact soil carbon, and the production pathways that would have the greatest likely impact on GHG emissions mitigation in a profitable and sustainable way.
Useful links:
Pathways to carbon neutral (or net zero) agricultural systems
Greenhouse Accounting Frameworks
Range of tools to determine the annual net GHG emissions status of a farm or business.
CN30 Carbon Storage Partnership will run free carbon accounting workshops in 2023 across Australia.
Simple methods for estimating soil carbon and greenhouse gas emissions abatement