Farmers for Climate Action

This Groundswell grant supported Farmers for Climate Action to elevate trusted farmer voices and push back against fossil fuel industry misinformation in regional Australia. The funding helped produce new research on the risks climate change and stalled emissions reduction pose to farming, scale targeted media and advertising, and train more than 350 farmer leaders to speak publicly about climate action. The work aims to build stronger regional support for phasing out coal and gas, while showing how climate action can strengthen farm productivity, markets and regional economies.

This Groundswell grant supported Farmers for Climate Action to strengthen farmer-led support for renewable energy and climate action across rural Australia. The funding helped train farmer advocates, expand media and community outreach, and share stories showing the economic opportunities clean energy can bring to regional communities. It also supported FCA’s national summit and volunteer network, helping trusted agricultural voices counter misinformation and build stronger support for renewables within farming communities.

This Groundswell grant supported Farmers for Climate Action to strengthen farmer-led advocacy for climate action across regional Australia. The funding helped FCA bring farmers into direct conversations with MPs, expand its Climate Smart Farming Toolkit and grow its national network, while sustaining a media strategy that puts credible farmer voices at the centre of the climate debate. The work helped build regional support for stronger climate policy by showing how climate action can benefit farms, communities and local economies.

This Groundswell grant supported Farmers for Climate Action to strengthen farmer-led advocacy for ambitious climate policy across Australia. The funding helped FCA deepen relationships with MPs and policymakers, train farmers as effective climate spokespeople, commission research and policy work, and grow its national network. During the grant period, FCA launched its Farming Forever plan, brought Climate Smart Farming Scholars to Canberra, reached 8,000 farmer members and continued putting trusted farmer voices at the centre of national conversations about climate and agriculture.

This Groundswell grant supported Farmers for Climate Action to grow farmer-led climate organising across Northern NSW and South-East Queensland. The funding helped employ a local coordinator, connect farmers and rural communities into climate-smart networks, and build their skills to advocate for stronger climate action. The work helped expand trusted farmer voices in regions central to debates about gas and clean energy, while strengthening local support for climate solutions that work for farming communities.