The Future Drought Fund’s My Climate View (formerly Climate Services for Agriculture) tool provides users with location-specific information on seasonal and monthly rainfall outlooks, and medium and longer term climate projections for rainfall and temperature.

The tool can be accessed at: myclimateview.com.au

Over $23 million is being invested through the Future Drought Fund in 26 projects focusing on drought resilient land management practices that will help Australia’s farmers prepare for and recover more quickly from drought. This program aims to demonstrate practices at a broad scale that will make our agricultural land more resilient to future droughts. The SA Drought Hub and partners are involved in several of these projects – download the list for details.

Drought Resilience Innovation Grants, funded by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry through the FDF, support projects that help Australian farmers, and agricultural-dependent communities and businesses, adopt innovative approaches and technologies to improve drought resilience. Three grants help cater for projects and ideas at different stages of development:

• Ideas Grants providing $50,000 for 12 months to help develop good ideas
• Proof-of-Concept Grants providing up to $120,000 for 12 months to test the feasibility of innovative projects
• Innovation Grants providing between $300,000 and $1.1M per year for up to 3 years for mature ideas.

SA Drought Hub members are involved in a range of projects funded for 2022–2024 across all three grants – download the project list for more details.