Natural Asset Farming
Creating Productive and Biodiverse Farms
Farm dams, creeklines, vegetation and rocky outcrops are natural assets that are essential for healthy, sustainable farms. Protecting and enhancing these elements of natural capital on farms not only supports biodiversity, but also contributes to farm productivity and to the well-being of farmers and farming communities.
Natural Asset Farming: Creating Productive and Biodiverse Farms reveals seven key natural assets and why they are so valuable for biodiversity and productivity on farms. Drawing on two decades of long-term ecological monitoring and knowledge exchange with farmers, Landcare groups and natural resource management experts, this book is a tool for building and enhancing natural assets in agricultural landscapes. In bringing together ecological science and the experience of farmers in the wheat–sheep belt of south-eastern Australia, Natural Asset Farming will help foster ideas, boost resilience and improve the sustainability of agricultural production.
David B. Lindenmayer is a world-leading expert in forest and woodland ecology and resource management, conservation science and biodiversity conservation.
Suzannah M. Macbeth is a writer with a background in conservation, communications and the creative arts. She manages communications and engagement for the Sustainable Farms project, based in Canberra.
David G. Smith is a research ecologist with the Conservation and Landscape Ecology Group at The Australian National University, working on the Sustainable Farms project.
Michelle L. Young is Sustainable Farms’ Project Director, and a social scientist who has worked on a range of research and evaluation projects in agriculture, the environment and public health.
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