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Key Learning Areas

The objectives of FarmReady are:

• improving the capacity of eligible participants to adapt to the impacts of climate change through targeted risk management and business management training activities, and
• enabling participants to reappraise their business prospects and options in light of changing climate conditions and make appropriate on-farm operational decisions, including the potential to capture commercial opportunities.

To achieve these objectives, courses registered under FarmReady must focus on one or two of the following Key Learning Areas:

1. understanding the implications of climate variability and climate change
2. integration of new techniques, including high-level technical skills, for sustainable production as a result of climate change
3. natural resource planning and adaptive management such as planning for sustainable use, integrated catchment management, drought management, fire management, and flood management as a result of climate change.
4. farm business management, risk assessment and identification of management options
5. development of research and analytical skills to be applied in primary production enterprise
6. strategic planning and thinking, scenario planning, decision making
7. holistic "whole farm" planning
8. financial management, such as budget preparation, monitoring and reporting, and ability to understand financial statements
9. human resource management / management of people
10. agritourism and food tourism management – its marketing, customer relations, product development and coordination

These Key Learning Areas will be reviewed periodically to ensure that the program is meeting its objectives.

 

 

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