The Northern Hub prioritises the inclusion and empowerment of First Nations communities, ensuring their knowledge systems and contributions are central to resilience strategies:

Knowledge Sharing: Collaborating with First Nations land managers and Traditional Owners to communicate insights about resilience threats to wild harvests, while safeguarding Indigenous intellectual property.

Capacity Building: Providing routine training to enhance participation in pastoral and forestry industries.

Building knowledge, skills and confidence of land managers is integral to driving transformational change in northern agricultural systems and to build resilient industries:

Skill Development: Strengthening networks and providing training opportunities to enhance practical competencies for long-term career pathways in agriculture and supply chains.

Barrier Identification: Addressing challenges in workforce attraction, retention, and capability development across industries and services.

Promoting sustainable production practices is critical to maintaining landscape profitability and biodiversity:

Pasture Management: Encouraging the use of improved pasture species to enhance feed quality and quantity.

Paddock Challenge: Challenging producers to ‘beat the researchers’ in choosing the best stocking rates for profitability.

Improving access to nature-based markets in Northern Australia by providing clearer information on possibilities and pitfalls, and case studies of early adopters

Clearer Information: Providing plain-language information to navigate local and federal laws, and current market opportunities

Case Studies: Discussing the successes and failures of landholders who have tried entering natural capital markets before, and identifying regional solutions.

Supporting land managers to proactively manage risk, focussing on risk that comes from seasonal climate variation and longer-term trends

Risk Management: Improving financial literacy and risk mitigation skills to enhance resilience in health, profitability, and supply chains.

Understanding weather: Training pastoralists in using climate and weather forecasts to make better management decisions and better understand climate-related risk.