CRC Salinity

 

FFI Programs

The FFI CRC will deliver its products and implement its strategies through seven programs
pdf (FFI CRC Program Management).  Detailed individual program descriptions are available below.

A participant's guide to project development activities in the transition period is available
(FFI CRC Project Development FAQ).

The FFI CRC has three industry programs:

  • Future livestock production: higher performance grazing systems in the existing livestock zone and new livestock production for the crop/livestock zone.
    Leader: Dr Joe Jacobs, Principal Research Scientist and State-wide Leader, Pasture and Grains Agronomy, PIRVic
  • Future cropping systems: new cropping systems with sufficient perennial component to be resilient to the multiple challenges posed by terms of trade, salinity and climate variability.
    Leader: Dr Alison Bowman, Director, Wagga Wagga Agricultural Institute and Research Leader - Southern Farming Systems, NSW DPI

  • New woody crop industries: new plant resources (e.g. native perennials) for new and existing regional industries including timber, charcoal, biomass energy and carbon sequestration.
    Leader: Paul Turnbull, Department of Primary Industries, Vic.

Two programs focused on catchment solutions:

  • Farming saline landscapes: development of strategies and farming systems for profitably managing salt-affected land and land at risk of salinity.
    Leader: Dr Ed Barrett-Lennard, Principal Research Officer, Centre for Eco-hydrology, Department of Agriculture and Food, WA
  • Biodiversity and water: quantifying ecosystem services for conservation of biodiversity, minimising trade-offs to water resources, and evaluating perennial plant adaptability to subsoil constraints and climate variability.
    Leader: Ken Wallace, Manager, Natural Resources Branch, Department of Environment and Conservation, WA

And two programs that develop the capacity to take action:

  • Education and training: postgraduate education, interdisciplinary professional development and training and capacity building for professionals servicing agriculture and natural resource management.
    Leader: Scott Glyde, Lecturer, Extension and Agricultural Systems, Charles Sturt University, NSW

 

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