Sustainable Agriculture

In 2017 we delivered new research to map Commonwealth and Victorian grants and programs that promote sustainable agriculture and food systems and biodiversity enhancement on private land. As well as helping to combat difficulties in accessing up-to-date and reliable information about programs and policies at different levels of government, this research highlights opportunities to address gaps or inconsistencies in agriculture and food systems policy – particularly where these are related to broader policy challenges like climate change and health. This stocktake builds on CPD’s important earlier work on sustainable agriculture, including the landmark report Farming Smarter Not Harder (2011) and the discussion paper From Vicious to Virtuous Cycles (2015).