{"id":313693,"date":"2022-02-22T18:41:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T08:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=313693"},"modified":"2022-02-22T18:47:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T08:47:26","slug":"south-burnett-in-drought-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2022\/02\/22\/south-burnett-in-drought-program\/","title":{"rendered":"South Burnett In Drought Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_226673\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-226673\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/littleproud2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"310\" class=\"size-full wp-image-226673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/littleproud2.jpg 200w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/littleproud2-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-226673\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Agriculture Minister and Member for Maranoa David Littleproud<\/figcaption><\/figure><strong>February 22, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The combined Darling Downs \/ South Burnett area is one of 23 regions across Australia included in a new drought resilience program backed by the CSIRO, the Federal Government and State Governments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Agriculture Minister and Member for Maranoa\u00a0David Littleproud said the CSIRO partnership would apply the best available science, research and evidence to drought resilience planning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe program kicks off with 23 regions now, with more to follow, as part of the Future Drought Fund\u2019s $40.85 million Regional Drought Resilience Planning program, being delivered through State and Territory governments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to tap into local knowledge, and pair that with the best available data, to identify pathways to resilience across agriculture and allied industries in each region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCSIRO will provide expert feedback on every plan to ensure regions are well-placed to tackle the risk of future droughts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CSIRO Chief Executive Dr Larry Marshall said Australia was one of the driest continents on Earth but science could help change the\u00a0 approach to drought from &#8220;crisis&#8221; to being prepared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing breakthrough science to build resilience with practical regional plans, we can better prepare our regions and communities to anticipate and mitigate the severity of future drought,\u201d Dr Marshall said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The pilot regions are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Queensland \u2013 Fitzroy\/Capricornia, Darling Downs plus South Burnett, Cape York\/Torres Strait, Burdekin\/Charters Towers, South West<\/li>\n<li>Victoria \u2013 Wimmera Southern Mallee, Goulburn and Gippsland<\/li>\n<li>South Australia \u2013 Murraylands\/Riverland, Yorke Peninsula\/Mid North and Far North\/Outback<\/li>\n<li>Western Australia \u2013 Northern Midwest, Southern Wheatbelt and Great Southern Inland<\/li>\n<li>Northern Territory \u2013 Southern Alice Springs and Barkly Pastoral Districts<\/li>\n<li>Tasmania \u2013 South, North, North-West<\/li>\n<li>Australian Capital Territory \u2013 whole of the ACT<\/li>\n<li>New South Wales \u2013 three regions to be announced soon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The combined Darling Downs \/ South Burnett area is one of 23 regions across Australia included in a new drought resilience program backed by the CSIRO, the Federal Government and State Governments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":232960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,36],"tags":[1134],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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