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Sustainable Resource Management Division
Sustainable Resource Management Division
Executive Manager, Ian Thompson
Ph: +61 2 6272 4623
The division provides policy advice and manages programs aimed at ensuring that agricultural production is undertaken sustainably, within the capacity of the landscape. This includes encouraging landowners and managers to maintain and improve the natural resource base on which agricultural production relies—soil, vegetation, water and atmosphere.
Australian Government Natural Resource Management Team,
including Landcare and Sustainable Production
General Managers
Glenda Kidman +61 2 6272 4233
Rod Shaw +61 2 6272 4623
John Talbot +61 2 6272 3847
The Australian Government Natural Resource Management Team is a joint venture between two Australian Government departments—Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, and Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts.
The AG NRM Team provides program delivery, liaison with state and territory agencies and regional bodies, and administration of funding for the Australian Government’s Caring for our Country initiative.
Caring for our Country plays a vital role in protecting and improving Australia’s unique biodiversity, the viability of its rural and regional communities, and the future of its agricultural industries.
The branch also provides policy advice and manages programs on a range of sustainable agriculture initiatives including landcare, environmental management systems, biodiversity and native vegetation, management of weeds and pest animals and market-based alternatives to regulation.
- Visit the Caring for our Country web site.
Domestic Fisheries and Aquaculture
General Manager
Catherine Smith +61 2 6272 5863
DAFF develops and implements policies and programs to ensure Australia’s fisheries are competitive, profitable and sustainable. It supports Australia’s domestic fisheries and aquaculture, through research, quarantine, fish health and food safety programs, market access and trade negotiations, business development and management assistance and policy development.
Develops and reviews policy to promote competitive, profitable and sustainable fisheries industry. Working closely with AFMA in relation to fisheries management, revising jurisdictional boundaries, progressing Joint Authorities operations, legislation reviews, supporting fisheries Committees and responding to arising issues. This section also manages a program of grants for onshore fishing related businesses and fishing communities that comes under the Securing our Fishing Future package.