The Ripple Effect project is a national, grower-led project improving on-farm water security, biodiversity, and climate resilience for Australian farmers, with dams as a central focus.
The project will guide growers towards multifunctional water infrastructure that enhances and provides future biodiversity and carbon market opportunities while improving water security and quality.
Demonstration sites across Australia will support accelerated adoption of best-practice water management, to increase biodiversity and reduce emissions, strengthening farm water security, productivity, and sustainability.
Led by the Grower Group Alliance, the project consortium includes key academic and research institutions across Australia, including; the University of Western Australia, the Australian National University, the University of Adelaide, the University of Southern Queensland, and The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT).
All eight national Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hubs have pledged to support the project, and will engage with grower group networks representing over 20,000 producers.
Collaboration and extension through all project partners will drive the adoption of innovation in water security and quality, biodiversity and emissions reduction to protect natural resources, improve productivity and profitability, ensuring truly national and enduring impact.
This project is supported by the Australian Government through funding from the Climate-Smart Agriculture Program under the Natural Heritage Trust.
MADFIG is partnering in a WA component with UWA and DPIRD to deliver a biodiversity and water project in the Eastern Wheatbelt. The current focus is the Wallatin Wildlife and Landcare group area – reviewing works in a previous project around salinity and water management – the “Bringing it all Together” Catchment Demonstration Initiative.
