Land use

Western Australia is the largest Australian State, spanning 2 400 kilometres from north to south, and experiencing a variety of climatic conditions, soil and land properties, and water availability. Accordingly, the state is suited to a variety of agricultural industries ranging from open range grazing and broadacre cereal cropping through to irrigated pastures and horticulture, orchards and vineyards.

The Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia provides the advice, support and tools needed to ensure the State’s land has the capability to sustain agricultural use, without degrading the soil and water resources on which it relies, and to ensure our most valuable agricultural land is protected from non-agricultural development.

Articles

Carbon Farming on Pastoral Lease Lands - Human Induced Regeneration

13 April 2018

Human-induced regeneration (HIR) carbon farming projects provide an opportunity to increase the economic value of the State’s natural assets and plays an important role in meeting Australia's domes
Low Carbon Futures

16 March 2022

DPIRD's Low Carbon Futures team aims to explore low carbon opportunities to support and facilitate regional businesses and communities in the transition to a low carbon economy, so that Western Aus
An Introduction to Carbon Farming in Western Australian

10 December 2013

Carbon farming offers an opportunity for farmers and other landowners to increase the amount of carbon stored in soil and vegetation (sequestration) or reduce emissions from livestock, soil or vege
Carbon Farming: The Economics, Western Australia

13 November 2013

Carbon farming activities can achieve multiple economic and environmental co-benefits in addition to, in some cases, emissions avoidance offset income.
Carbon Farming: Permanent Environmental Plantings to Earn Carbon Credits – Western Australia

18 October 2013

Reforesting previously cleared farming land with permanent environmental plantings can potentially earn carbon credits for the carbon stored in the trees and litter.
Carbon Farming and Reforestation, Afforestation and Revegetation in Western Australia

13 November 2013

Reforestation, afforestation and revegetation can sequester significant amounts of carbon per hectare.
Carbon Farming on Agricultural Land in WA

20 February 2014

Carbon farming is the deliberate set of agricultural practices or land uses to increase carbon stored in the soil and vegetation (sequestration) and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from livestoc
Livestock equivalents for estimating stocking rates and grazing pressure in the rangelands of Western Australia

22 August 2018

Information on this page can be used by pastoralists to manage grazing pressure for sustainable pastoralism.
Biomass to Bioenergy - Fact Sheets

16 March 2022

Bioenergy in simple terms is the conversion of biomass to energy, however the broad range of potential biomass inputs, conversion technologies and energy product outputs makes biomass to bioenergy
Advanced Bioenergy Industry Development

16 March 2022

Advanced bioenergy solutions have the potential to recover waste resources from primary production, reduce emissions in hard-to-abate sectors, and directly substitute for fossil fuels while complem