LiFT – the Landscape Function Toolkit for climate resilience

Community coming together to restore eroded landscapes

Mulloon Institute is pleased to announce we have been successful in winning one of 12 Climate-Smart Agriculture Program’s Partnerships and Innovation grants under the Natural Heritage Trust! Our project entitled the Landscape Function Toolkit: Equipping Australia with a Systems-Approach to Landscape Climate Resilience, or LiFT for short, is a five-year project.

We need cost effective, accessible ways to implement whole of systems approaches to building and measuring landscape resilience. Functioning landscapes retain essential resources (water and nutrients) and can bounce back from natural disasters like floods, bushfires and droughts. The grant will fund development of LiFT to equip land managers, farmers and First Nations’ peoples with the skills and tools to monitor the function of their landscapes and take action to increase the health and resilience of agricultural landscapes in the face of climate change. 

LiFT will define landscape function and develop the tools to measure whole of system resilience. The goal is to develop an integrated set of landscape function indicators and principles that are informed by First Nations knowledge and western science that are accessible and easy to use. 

Our consortium partners include: Aurecon Australia, Australian Rivers Institute, CIBO Labs, Commonland, HydroTerra, Jillamatong Regenerative Beef, Kooma Traditional Owners Assoc., Landcare NSW, Noongar Land Enterprise Group, Regen Farmers Mutual, The Borevitz Lab, Top End Conservation Management, WaterNSW, Wyloo Pastoral, as well as the Northern WA and NT + the South-West WA Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hubs.