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2025 Nuffield Drought Resilience Scholarships
5 x $40,000 drought resilience scholarships available through Nuffield Australia
Want to travel overseas and bring home new drought resilience tools and practices from international leaders in the field?
The Future Drought Fund and Nuffield Australia are partnering again in 2025 to offer up to 5 Aussie farmers overseas study scholarships in drought resilience.
Through a Nuffield Drought Resilience Scholarship, you’ll build your drought resilience knowledge and grow your industry and community’s capacity to deal with dry times.
Each scholarship is valued at $40,000.
Applications close on 31 May 2024.
Applications open for drought resilience innovators
Australian innovators with new ideas for drought resilience are invited to apply to be part of the Drought Venture Studio
The Future Drought Fund (FDF) recently announced Beanstalk Agtech as their delivery partner for the Drought Resilience Commercialisation Initiative (the Initiative), which will be delivered via their Drought Venture Studio.
As part of the Initiative, applications for innovators with research, IP or a revolutionary new idea to increase drought resilience are now open.
Successful innovators will receive hands-on commercialisation support and the opportunity to be one of 8 startups matched with an experienced Co-Founder for commercialisation and launch of a new drought resilience product or service.
For more information and to apply visit the Drought Venture Studio.
Applications close on 12 July 2024.
Current Transformational Grants
Small Grants Closed
The South-West WA Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub’s (SW WA Hub) small grants program is now closed. Full proposals are currently being reviewed with project announcements anticipated for later this month.
Led by the SW WA Hub with funding from the FDF, the Hub’s 18 month Transformational Projects Program (the Program) aims to transform current agricultural systems and address drought and climate challenges.
Contact Knowledge Broker Tanya Kilminster with any queries tkilminster@gga.org.au.
Guidelines
Register for SA study tour
September 17 – 22
Join other growers from Sunday, September 17, to Friday, September 22, for a five-day tour looking at innovation in South Australian broadacre agriculture. Look and think ‘outside the box’ while viewing new approaches to soil and water productivity, different ways of unlocking plant potential and examples of efficient input use.
Current Opportunities
Opening January 2023
Future Drought Fund (FDF) grant round: Long-term Trials of Drought Resilient Farming Practices Grants Program
This $40 million grants program will support a limited number of long-term trials to build the drought resilience and profitability of cropping and grazing farmers.
