FarmPrint brings practical approach to sustainable agriculture
Unique collaboration helps farmers evaluate their on-farm carbon footprint
With agriculture accounting for 19.6 per cent of national carbon emissions, it is clear that work to decarbonise the sector can make an important contribution to Australia’s net zero ambitions. FarmPrint was developed by the CEFC, CSIRO, Macquarie Asset Management to demonstrate the potential for data, science and technology to improve agricultural sustainability and reduce emissions on Australian farms.
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FarmPrint brings practical approach to sustainable agriculture
August 2020
FarmPrint is a unique tool designed to enable Australian farmers to monitor, benchmark and evaluate their on-farm carbon footprint, an important step in identifying actions that can lift the sustainability of their farming operations. This Insight explores the initial methodology informing FarmPrint, outcomes of a pilot project with Viridis Ag, and the potential benefits for farmers using the tool.
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FarmPrint is a web-based tool that allows farmers to input operational information about their farm to calculate the intensity of their emissions footprint.
The tool, initiated in 2018 through a CEFC, Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) and CSIRO collaboration to increase Australian agriculture’s uptake of climate solutions, was seeded from a $100 million CEFC investment in Macquarie Agriculture Fund – Crop Australia 1.
Following the successful development and testing of FarmPrint on CEFC-related agriculture investments, CSIRO further refined and tested the tool and launched it to the broader farming community in February 2026.
FarmPrint, which is now available to farmers through the CSIRO, has an Application Programming Interface that allows the tool to read data from other software and data sources. The tool has a cradle-to-gate approach and conforms with Australian and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reporting standards. FarmPrint gives users the ability to evaluate the Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions of a whole portfolio of farms.
Access FarmPrint from the CSIRO website.
Australian agriculture will increasingly need to provide solid data on the emissions output per unit of production, to meet consumer demand for sustainable products and investor requirements for substantiated evidence of on-farm sustainability, including quantitative metrics. FarmPrint can make an exciting contribution to these activities.
