Past Projects

Environmental Markets Leadership Program

The Environmental Markets Leadership Program is designed to inspire and support a network of land managers and farmers to play a leading role in natural capital and environmental markets. The program simplifies the world of natural capital and environmental markets. It supports land managers and farmers to identify, market and benefit from the natural capital, ecosystem services, sustainable land management and environmental services they generate and provide to society. It builds their confidence to influence and participate in existing markets and drive the development of new market opportunities.

Partner: Local Land Services
Collaborators: Monash University, JBass Consulting

https://www.emlp.com.au/

Resilient Food Systems

The Resilient Food Systems project aims to engage local governments, communities and stakeholders to build the resilience of local food systems in the face of climate change risks. A local food system is a collaborative network that integrates sustainable food production, processing, distribution, consumption and waste management in order to enhance the environment, economic and social health of an area.

Partner: City of Holdfast Bay
Collaborators: Collaborative Futures and Sustain: The Australian Food Network

Pre-Farm Gate Workshop Waste

Project Scope: AgriFutures Workshop Waste project
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Securing Our Sustainably Managed Farmland

Ethical Fields was commissioned by Trust for Nature to do an analysis of ownership and governance structures that can enable community and collective ownership of farming land in Victoria and in Australia; analysis of the financing structures that can be used in Australia, including market testing and co-creating structures with impact and philanthropic
capital, and reporting on the shared ownership and governance structure learnings from the Rokewood pilot project.

Partner: Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation via Trust for Nature
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Localising the Supply Chain

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Partner: City of Newcastle
Collaborators: ARCBlue, Giffith University (Yunus Centre) and Monash Sustainable Development Institute
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Wimmera Migration Strategy

The Wimmera Southern Mallee economy is expected to grow over the next decade as developments in the food manufacturing, intensive livestock, horticulture, energy, tourism and care sectors bring new opportunities. To meet this growth, Wimmera will need to find ways of attracting people to settle in the region.

This project responds to this need. It seeks to identify the likely sources of new workers, and the factors that will attract them. It then aims to help Wimmera’s business and community leaders to develop actionable strategies to foster a socio-economic landscape that will meet these factors. This project aims to assist in the development of the key Migration component of the WDA’s strategic regional development plan.

Partner: Wimmera Development Association
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Gippsland Tracks and Trails

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