What is the Reef Alliance: Growing a Great Barrier Reef Project?
Reef Alliance partners are committed to a shared vision and with the announcement of Reef Trust III funding, 12 of the 14 Reef Alliance partners chose to work together to submit one collaborative bid. The Reef Trust III initiative supports support cane farmers to move beyond industry best practice, reduce erosion loss from grazing lands and maintaining water quality improvement momentum in grains, dairy and horticulture.
The collaborative application was successful and in May 2016, the Reef Alliance: Growing a Great Barrier Reef Project (GGBR) commenced. The GGBR project is a balanced and integrated approach to advance farmer practices beyond industry best management practice (BMP) and fast track the implementation of innovative practices. It builds on the last eight years of collaborative partnership to implement one integrated project that encourages consistent approaches, creates efficiencies and avoids duplication. The project aligns to targets within the Reef 2050 Long-Term Sustainability Plan and the Reef Water Quality Protection Plan.
The GGBR project will invest $45.6M to support 1,196 farmers and graziers improve their practices over 1,841,480ha across 33 Great Barrier Reef catchments by June 30, 2019. The program targets five agriculture commodities:
- Sugarcane
- Grazing
- Horticulture
- Broad Acre Cropping
AgForce Queensland is a peak organisation representing Queensland’s rural producers.
The Burnett Mary Regional Group (BMRG) is the peak body for natural resource management (NRM) for a region comprising the Burnett and Mary river catchments.
CANEGROWERS is the peak body for Australian sugarcane growers
Cape York Natural Resource Management (NRM) Ltd is a not-for-profit organisation and registered charity, with a mission to help people work to care for the natural environment while promoting the sustainable use of natural resources in Cape York Peninsula.
Growcom is the peak representative body for Queensland horticulture and strives for the long term growth and profitability of horticultural farms and the industry. Our core membership consists of Queensland’s fruit and vegetable producers and individuals, groups and industries who have a stake or interest in the future of Queensland horticulture.
NQ Dry Tropics is an independent, not-for-profit organisation that is committed to sustaining our region’s natural resources for the benefit of current and future generations. We are a non-governmental Natural Resource Management (NRM) body operating in the 146,000km² Burdekin Dry Tropics region.
The Queensland Farmers’ Federation is the united voice of intensive agriculture in Queensland. It is a federation that represents the interests of 15 of Queensland’s peak rural industry organisations, which in turn collectively represent more than 13,000 primary producers across Queensland.
