Natural Disasters

QFF has delivered relief and recovery projects for severe natural disasters including Cyclones Larry (2006) and Yasi (2011), the 2011 Queensland floods, flooding associated with Cyclone Oswald (2013), Cyclone Marcia (2015), Cyclone Debbie (2017).

Our role in these events has been to manage the industry recovery program, ensuring landholders can access the information, advice and technical support needed to ensure they a full recovery. Importantly, QFF has increased the focus on resilience planning through the Farm Business Resilience Program and the project, Managing the Financial Impact of Weather Risks on the Australian agriculture sector.

Primary producers are encouraged to use the Disaster Impact Survey to alert the Queensland Government and their Industry Group of a disaster impact.

Resilience

Resilience in agriculture is the ability to recover and attain full business functionality after a disruption.

Building resilience is about changing industry attitudes toward risk and development capacity to adapt to change. These projects aim to reduce the physical and financial impacts of natural disasters on your farm business with the goal to restore the property to its pre-disaster capability as quickly as possible.
Disaster Resilience Planning for Agriculture in Queensland

QFF has recently completed delivering the Disaster Resilience Planning for Agriculture in Queensland (DRPAQ) project funded by the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries.

The work completed in this project has fed in to the national project, Disaster Resilience Planning for Australian Agriculture, funded out of the National Emergency Management Project (NEMP).

A copy of the DRPAQ report can be viewed and downloaded HERE.
Insurance

Through extensive natural disaster recovery and natural disaster resilience work experience, QFF identified a gap in the risk management tools available to land holders.

Agricultural industry-specific insurance is an exciting prospect for our sector in its ongoing journey in managing risk. QFF is at the forefront of this exciting new industry and is working with industry members and the insurance industry to develop appropriate products.

Currently, crop insurance is not available for many agricultural commodities. Through this work, appropriate insurance products will be brought to market faster giving farmers additional risk management tools.

For more information, visit: www.qff.org.au/projects/insurance.

Farmer Disaster Support Website

Natural disaster support is available on a purpose-built QFF website: farmerdisasertsupport.org.au. The site has a simple postcode and industry search function that provides a one stop shop of all industry specific, local, state, federal and not-for-profit assistance available in your local area. The service is designed for farmers from all industries and is designed to save them time and frustration in the aftermath of an event.

Agrilearn Natural Disaster Resilience Program

Capture An innovative online course is now available to assist farmers across Queensland to develop flood mitigation and resilience management plans for their properties: https://www.growcom.com.au/portfolio/natural-disaster-resilience-program-floods/ The education resource features information specific to the horticulture and dairy industries including an introduction to flood mapping, understanding of soil health and nutritional issues and financial and risk management.

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