Building a Place-based Social Licence to Operate
This report sheds light on our shared concerns about farming: costs, caring for the environment, and animal welfare. And highlights the differences: urban consumers are…
CONNECTING FOOD,
LAND & PEOPLE
Farming for Good is a research collection that explores our sense of connection with farming in Aotearoa New Zealand.
It's about supporting everyday people and leaders across our communities, farming sector and government, to build trust in our food and farming system.
E hara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini
The success should not be bestowed onto me alone, it is the success of a collective
The Big Picture
To explore Farming for Good, use the diagram below to find the research or case-study that matters to you.
The Food & Farming People’s Panel
Everyday New Zealanders discuss the food & farming issues that matter.
Research Library
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Technical Report
Guidance
Social Licence to Farm and ‘Good Farming’: Farmer and Public Expectations
This factsheet brings together material from the public and farmer surveys, exploring the similarities and differences between farmers’ and the public’s understanding of what is…
Infographic
Partnering for Change: A shared-responsibility approach to environmental change
This infographic outlines the key learning, recommendations and changes made as a result of the Urban-Rural Partnerships for Equal Change research project.
Summary
How farmers’ social licence to operate is being negotiated in statutory planning processes in the Waikato Region
This case study looks at Waikato dairy farmers’ compliance with dairy effluent discharge consents. While other factors like methane emissions may also affect dairy farming’s…
Guidance
Social Licence to Farm, and ‘Good Farming’: Public Views
This fact sheet explores the public’s perceptions of a social licence to farm and how it relates to ‘good farming’, based on 2023 survey results.…
Technical Report
Social licence: final report on the nexus between producers and the public
The criteria used by the public and producers to assess ‘good’ farming are constantly changing. At present, they are reasonably well aligned. Social licence is…
Technical Report
Partnering for Change: Pilot and replicable model
This project provides evidence that physically connecting urban consumers with farmers and growers can positively influence beliefs and attitudes of all involved parties and as a…
Technical Report
Negotiating social licence to farm: what, where, and how
The objective of this research was to develop an inventory of ‘places and spaces’ within which social licence is negotiated (where), methods of negotiation (how),…
Technical Report
Enhancing Farm Assurance – A White Paper
Assurance systems are one of the cornerstones of the New Zealand economy and agribusinesses – ensuring compliance with regulations, enabling international trade, ensuring safety of…
Mangaroa Farms
A resilient community food & farming hub.
About Farming for Good
Farming for Good is about better understanding the many ways that everyday people connect to food and farming.
It's an issue that doesn't standstill. People's sense of connection to the whenua (land) and trust in their food & farming system is an ongoing negotiation. As practices, perceptions, trends, tools and crises change, so does this special relationship.
Through surveys, interviews, case studies and action pathways, the Farming for Good collection explores five perspectives on building trust and connection in food and farming.
Drawing from research conducted during 2022 and 2023 exploring the social licence of farming, the collection is published at a time of heightened interest in where our food & fibre starts. We're seeing increasing public scrutiny of the environmental impacts of production, new government regulations, food accessibility issues, extreme weather events and more. The research tells us how people feel about these and other changes in their food & farming system. It shows us where trust and connection is strong, where it might be faltering and how to build it back.
Related Projects
The Farming for Good research collection includes the work of five projects supported by the Our Land and Water National Science Challenge:
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Urban-Rural Partnerships for Equal Change
Partnering for change: A shared-responsibility approach to environmental change
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Peri-Urban Potential
How can landscapes for both people and production prosper within peri-urban Aotearoa through innovative spatial design, reconnecting New Zealanders with whenua and food?
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Enhancing Assurance Schemes
The role of assurance in enhancing social licence to operate
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Connecting Food Producers & Consumers
Navigating social licence to operate between farmers, agribusinesses, consumers, and citizens in Aotearoa New Zealand
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