The Nature Refuge Landholders’ Association — Queensland Inc. (NaRLA), hosts of the conference, invite you to join them - in person or on-line - to share in shedding light on the future Landcare pathway!
How was the focus of the conference decided?
The design of the 2010 Queensland landcare conference began by asking Landcare stake-holders in a state-wide survey to guide the focus of the conference by indicating the Landcare issues of greatest concern to them. Land management was ranked as their top concern by 74% of respondents. Income diversification was ranked as their highest priority by 18% of respondents. In response to this strong guidance by 92% of the respondents to the survey, the core of the Conference program has been designed as a practical immersion land management (including income diversification) professional development program.
Conference theme and contents
The central theme of the conference, which will be held in Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast, is the planning and implementation of integrated, sustainable, whole-of-property land management.
Four land management strategies (natural sequence farming, carbon farming, permaculture and organic farming) have been selected to act as a framework around which the core of the conference is built. In this way, in addition to examination of the principles, processes and advantages of sound land management planning, delegates will be familiarised concurrently with the details, advantages and practical implementation of land management strategies proven sustainable, productive and cost-effective in Australia and elsewhere in the world across a range of different scales of implementation, and in a variety of different environments.
These strategies are currently of particular relevance and importance to forward-looking landholders because the practices involved stand at the forefront of the implementation of greenhouse gas reduction and carbon sequestration policies being considered by both the current Australian Federal Government and the Federal Opposition. Thus, landholders well versed in and prepared for implementation of these strategies will be poised to take advantage of some excellent business opportunities. The nature of these opportunities will be discussed in income diversification forums during the conference.
In addition to the core topics that form the bulk of the conference program, the program includes a variety of other topics related to the core.
See conference website Queensland Landcare 2010 Conference
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