This Better Practice Guideline is the result of an Energy Charter #BetterTogether collaboration. It was co-developed by landholder and community representatives and a group of electricity transmission businesses to: • Build a shared understanding of the impacts and potential benefits associated with hosting energy transmission infrastructure for agricultural landholders • Provide practical social licence to operate (‘social licence’) guidance to mitigate negative impacts and prioritise shared value through the energy transition. As Australia moves towards a renewable energy future, a growing number of agricultural landholders are being approached to host electricity transmission and other energy infrastructure on their land. Energy businesses recognise that these transmission development projects, as well as the maintenance of existing infrastructure, can impact the agricultural operations, lives and livelihoods of agricultural landholders. They also understand that they have a responsibility to recognise and minimise these impacts and work towards shared value outcomes for everyone. The development of this Better Practice Guideline has been critical to developing a deeper understanding of: • The ways electricity transmission infrastructure impacts agricultural landholders and their communities • The principles that underpin how to build and maintain social licence for landholders and communities affected by transmission developments • Practical opportunities to minimise impacts and deliver shared value during the planning, construction, operation and decommissioning of transmission infrastructure. By validating impacts and identifying opportunities to improve outcomes for agricultural landholders, this Better Practice Guideline supports transmission businesses to better understand and act on, the factors that contribute to building trust and maintaining social licence with agricultural landholder and their communities. This Better Practice Guideline is also intended to support agricultural representatives, landholders and host communities to raise and discuss known impacts and work constructively with transmission businesses to achieve shared value outcomes. The research that informed this Better Practice Guideline was specifically focussed on hearing directly from agricultural landholders hosting, or who have been approach to host, transmission infrastructure on their land. However, we recognise that landholders are also members of their broader communities and can provide insight into the impacts and opportunities relevant to their neighbours and at a community level. For this reason, these Better Practice Guidelines refer to better practice actions and opportunities for both agricultural landholders and their communities more broadly. For example, both compensation for landholders hosting transmission infrastructure and Community Benefit sharing are referenced in this Better Practice Guideline. For clarity each activity and opportunity listed, includes a description specifying who it is most relevant to.