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Victoria Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub

The Mallee Regional Innovation Centre is a partner in the Victoria Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub. The Centre leads the North-West Irrigated Horticulture Node.

Drought preparedness

Droughts are a recurring feature of Australia’s highly variable environment and are exacerbated by a changing climate.

The Mallee Regional Innovation Centre works with our Victoria Hub partners to enhance the drought preparedness and resilience of Victoria’s agricultural industries, the environment and regional communities.

Through wide-ranging engagement with industry and community stakeholders, we broker connections between the best available research and community and industry needs. Co-design with farmers, industry and regional communities leads to adoption of innovations to improve economic, environmental and social resilience to drought.

The drought cycle

The Hub uses this four-phase drought cycle explanation:

• The Good Period: average or above average rainfall and good conditions.
• The Uncertain Period: growing conditions are below average.
• The Drought Period: rainfall is consistently below average; several expected 'good events' don't occur.
• Recovery: rainfall increases, but farm businesses are recovering from drought.

View region specific information here.