The Northern Territory gathering brought together directors of Australia’s eight Drought Resilience Adoption & Innovation Hubs, funded through the Federal Government’s Future Drought Fund.
Vic Hub director Michael Tausz said the gathering gave an excellent opportunity for knowledge exchange and the sharing of best practices.
A highlight was the presentation from Centrefarm Aboriginal Horticulture, which is a First Nations not-for-profit organisation funded by the Northern Hub, who hosted the eight hubs.
Professor Tausz said Centrefarm’s culturally significant and innovative co-mapping project in the Alekarenge and Mataranka regions involved collaboration with Traditional Custodians to integrate cultural knowledge, stories, sites, biota and language onto a large canvas map, utilising geospatial data.
He said during the visit to Katherine, the hub directors learnt more about the co-mapping project’s broader implications for drought resilience directly from the Centrefarm operators.
“It was an excellent example of the power of collaboration and how integrating diverse perspectives can lead to more effective drought-resilience strategies.“
The Vic Hub is one of eight hubs established nationally through the Federal Government’s Future Drought Fund (FDF), the statewide collaboration led by the University of Melbourne, with headquarters at the university’s Dookie Campus,and includes five farming organisations (Birchip Cropping Group, Food and Fibre Gippsland, Mallee Regional Innovation Centre, Riverine Plains and Southern Farming Systems), four universities and the Victorian Government (through Agriculture Victoria).
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