Natural capital enhances farm production, profitability and financial resilience: findings from a study on 230,000 ha of farmland in Australia

Elizabeth Heagney, Daniel Gregg, Dan Hill, James Radford, Grace Sutton, Fred Rainsford, Daniel O'Brien, Angela Hawdon, Imogen Semmler, Mark Gardner, Milly Taylor and Sue Ogilvy

Agricultural Systems, 2026, vol. 231, issue C

Abstract: Ambitious targets under the Paris Climate Agreement and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework bring increasing urgency for agriculture to play an active role as a nature-based solution to climate and biodiversity loss. But widespread uptake of nature-based solutions by the agriculture sector has proved elusive. This paper presents the results of the Farming for the Future Livestock Program, a large-scale program that sought to quantify the financial implications of natural capital for farm business performance in Australia's broadacre livestock sector, which covers 350 million ha and contributes more than 50% of the country's gross value of agricultural production.

Keywords: Natural capital; Nature-based solutions; Sustainable Agriculture; Environmental assets; Longitudina (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2025.104553

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