D C B A
� Providing grants tailored with payments associated with achieving key inputs or outcomes; and � Supporting recognition and reward of high performers or those that have made large changes in land management.
Land management standard
Low Duty of care
High
D C B A
Ongoing assistance to access information. Training subsidies scaled to current land management and / or degree of land management change
Ongoing assistance to engage with BMPs and achieve accreditation
Regulation
Tailored grants with staged payments
Recognition, field days, field trial support, case studies
Figure 6 Potential incentive mix supporting the spectrum of landholders to improved practices
Recommendation 3a: LDC support BBB landholders to understand their current regulatory obligations and facilitate landholder input to reviews or proposed amendments to relevant regulations.
Regulation is applied by governments, so sits beyond the remit of NQ Dry Tropics and the LDC project. In
Figure 6, A through to D management classifications indicate levels of land management practices. Regulatory obligations apply to all land managers. C level practice is considered to be‘ duty of care’, below which regulatory compliance is expected to be the main force to bring land management up to regulated standards( C level). Regulatory obligations can be confusing and water quality regulations have recently changed. Other regulations e. g. vegetation management, may also impact grazing practices, and have been raised by graziers as an impediment to achieving water quality outcomes.
We recommend that LDC should, through the Policy Engagement program area, ensure that BBB landholders fully understand their regulatory obligations, and facilitate landholder input to regulatory reviews or proposed regulatory amendments( including recent changes to the reef protection regulations and Vegetation Management Act). This could include brokering more effective State approaches to the co-design of local implementation arrangements for regulation.
Recommendation 3b: LDC provide ongoing assistance for landholders to access information, extension services and subsidised training
The LDC project should offer information, extension and subsidised training opportunities to BBB graziers and provide multiple and variable pathways for graziers to engage with training and support services. Information, extension and training should align with and complement existing industry BMP, DAF extension and property management planning processes including:
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