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Sustainable Agriculture State-level Investment Program (AgSIP)
Program overview
The Sustainable Agriculture State-level Investment Program (AgSIP) was a state-level investment program of the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality. The program ran from August 2004 until June 2007.
AgSIP´s specific objective was to develop new processes, tools and frameworks to facilitate agricultural practice change where needed in order to help regional natural resource management (NRM) groups design, refine, deliver and review their regional investment strategies and natural resource management plans. This involved looking at existing practices, developing new recommended practices where needed, filling data gaps, designing integrated landscape monitoring systems, and developing better training and decision-support tools across cotton, cane grazing and horticulture industries. AgSIP project leaders were to work on multi-regional and multi-industry issues as opposed to local issues.
The projects
AgSIP consisted of 20 projects over 4 themes (grazing lands management, landscape management, enhanced industry NRM, and coordination and process support). The $7.8 million investment was managed by the AgSIP board and delivered through Queensland Farmers´ Federation, Central Queensland University, CSIRO, Department of Natural Resources and Water, Burdekin Canegrowers, Cotton Catchment Communities and the Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries.
Grazing land management
- Developing best practice grazing management guidelines with stakeholders and supporting landholders in the transition to more sustainable grazing practices
Industry natural resource management
- Developing industries´ (horticulture, cotton, grain and cane) capacity to engage and be involved in the regional natural resource management process
- Landscape management - developing innovative ways to support communities in monitoring and actioning natural resource management issues
Coordination and process support
- Overall coordination and communication - economic, biophysical and social work to develop new decision-support tools and processes
Project budgets
|
Project ID |
Project title |
Delivery area |
Budget |
|---|---|---|---|
|
AG05 |
Benchmarking pesticide and nutrient movement in new can and horticultural farming systems |
Mary-Burnett, Burdekin, |
$785,700 |
|
AG15 |
Building NRM capacity in irrigated cotton and grain industry |
Queensland Murray Darling Basin, Condamine, Fitzroy |
$540,290 |
|
AG16 |
Scoping and capacity building of NRM issues within the horticulture industry of Dry Tropics |
Mary-Burnett, Burdekin, |
$291,000 |
|
AG17 |
Developing an integrated small catchments approach to management of pesticides and nutrients in cane systems |
Burdekin |
$291,000 |
|
AG02 |
Grazing land management in Burdekin Rangelands |
Burdekin |
$349,200 |
|
AG04 |
Development of grazing land management package in Fitzroy Basin region |
Fitzroy |
$349,200 |
|
AG06 |
Development of grazing land management package in Queensland Murray Darling Basin region |
Queensland Murray Darling Basin |
$194,000 |
|
AG09 |
Develop and implement an environmental monitoring program across grazing lands of the NAP regions |
All NAP regions |
$349,200 |
|
AG10 |
Modelling simulation to support the adoption of sustainable grazing |
All NAP regions |
$349,200 |
|
AG01 |
Planning and implementation support to landscape best practice through the IAWM process in NAP regions |
All NAP regions |
$349,200 |
|
AG08 |
IAWM development in Condamine Alliance region |
Condamine |
$291,000 |
|
AG11 |
IAWM development in Queensland Murray Darling Basin region |
Queensland Murray Darling Basin |
$291,000 |
|
AG12 |
IAWM development in Fitzroy Basin Region |
Fitzroy |
$514,100 |
|
AG03 |
Coordination and process support of Sustainable Agriculture Initiatives in NAP |
All NAP Regions |
$989,910 |
|
AG07 |
Decision support to assess impact of land use change |
All NAP Regions |
$931,200 |
|
AG13 |
Resource economic assessment of costs/benefits involved in land use change and incentive mechanisms to support change |
All NAP Regions |
$349,200 |
|
AG14 |
Adoption of sustainable landscape design practices on small holdings |
SEQ Catchments |
$291,000 |
|
AG18 |
Developing effective engagement approaches to work across different land users in densely populated areas |
SEQ Catchments |
$291,000 |
AgSIP final report
AgSIP final report
An overview of the program with recommendations for future statewide sustainable agriculture
Additional information
Resource economics
This website provides a guide to economic techniques that might be available to evaluate different issues and design solutions. Materials are provided through the overview, reports and workshops pages.
Regional natural resource management
Information on regional NRM, the healthy regions agenda, community and regional groups, regional plans and investment strategies, research, education and careers resources, and who's who.
The Bugle
The Bugle is a weekly e-newsletter that keeps people up to date on the latest happenings of the regional NRM program.
