Capturing value from environmental markets through a farmer mutual
12 March 2021 12:30 - 26 March 2021 14:00
The Co-operative Farming program offers a 90% bursary for this course. Find out more and apply for a bursary. Subject to approval, you will receive an email from the Co-operative Farming program confirming your successful application and with a discount code that you should apply at the checkout, this will ensure your payment is reduced to 10% of the full cost. Please note applications for bursaries need to be submitted no later than Thursday 11 March 2021.
In this course farmers will explore the ways they can aggregate market power to simplify access to Environment Goods and Services (EG&S) markets, and to retain more value from their land stewardship. We will investigate the strategies that farmers can deploy, including the value that a farmer-led mutual can create around provenance, data and tailoring EG&S products to meet farmer needs.
EG&S markets are set to grow in volume, scope and scale. They will provide a significant commercial opportunity to a broad number of Australian farmers. This is partly driven by government via regulation, targets and market mechanisms, and partly by a growing appetite from corporates and institutional investors. These initiatives are looking to halt the worst impacts of climate change and achieve Net Zero by 2050. Farmers are set to be major suppliers of these Environmental Goods and Services in the decades to come. Naturally, there is an opportunity for farmers to co-operate and investigate mutually beneficial strategies and structures to meet this emerging demand.
This course asks – and helps farmers answer – “What are the fundamental factors that enable farmers to work together to best service the demand for Environmental Goods and Services?”.
This will be the topic we explore with participants in this dynamic collaborative Learning Together format. This course builds on the successful collaboration delivered under the Co-operative Farming Program in August and September 2020 that explored ‘Measurement, Credibility and Monetization through a Protected Habitat Mutual’. It is recommended, but not compulsory, that participants familiarise themselves with the previous course content.
The course will be facilitated over multiple weeks by Janeece Keller, Rohan Clarke and Andrew Ward.
Provider
- Ethical Fields
Dates
Three dates to be delivered online through Zoom:
- 12 March, 12:30 – 2.00pm “Getting started – Capturing the Business Model”
- 19 March, 12:30 – 3.30pm “Deep Dive – Understanding the Value Chain”
- 26 March, 12:30 – 2.00pm “Learning Harvest – Defining Mutual Principles”
Cost
Cost (before subsidy): $1000 plus booking fee
Cost (with Co-operative Farming 90% educational bursary): $100 plus booking fee
Process
The Co-operative Farming program offers a 90% bursary for this course. Find out more and apply for a bursary. Subject to approval, you will receive an email from the Co-operative Farming program confirming your successful application and with a discount code that you should apply at the checkout, this will ensure your payment is reduced to 10% of the full cost. Please note applications for bursaries need to be submitted no later than Thursday 11 March 2021.