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Resources for
Primary Industry Bodies
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People in primary sector support bodies provide important direction to land managers, helping ensure that practices evolve in response to new evidence. These resources can help you develop best practices and guidance for farm management, based on impartial and robust evidence.
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Technical Report
Regenerative Agriculture Value Proposition: Final report
The purpose of this project was to define the value proposition for regenerative agriculture in a sheep and beef context for New Zealand, using a…
Summary
Nutrient losses from global dairy production systems differ
The demand for dairy produce is growing alongside concerns about the impact of intensive dairying on water quality owing to nutrient loss. We found that…
Summary
Future scenarios for arable agriculture
Food security, tackling climate change through emissions reduction, and developing alternative proteins in New Zealand are three threads that were explored by the Future Scenarios…
Journal Article
How much less? Estimating price discounts for suboptimal food with environmental and social credence attributes
Price discounting strategies for suboptimal food perform an essential part in reducing food waste. This study provides new information empirically estimating discounts for levels of…
Video
Winning the Green Premium: Beverage Sector webinar
Beverage consumers are demanding ever-greater sustainability in their drinks. That comes with a financial cost. How can producers earn more to cover these new costs?…
Summary
An Early Contribution to Beef + Lamb New Zealand’s Taste Pure Nature Brand
Evidence from the Integrating Value Chains programme supported a country-of-origin brand that reached hundreds of millions of people in the US and China, and could…
Interactive Tool
The Matrix of Drivers: Online Tool
This online tool presents what agrifood experts think are the greatest issues and pressures influencing land use change in New Zealand. Developed by the Agribusiness…
Video
Winning the Green Premium: Red Meat Sector webinar
Red meat consumers are demanding ever-greater sustainability in their food choices. That comes with a financial cost. How can producers earn more to cover these…
Guidance
Where next for catchment groups?
Lifting ambition and gearing up for the long game – a guidance report This report is aimed at individuals or groups seeking to establish, work…
Guidance
Where next for catchment groups? A summary
Lifting ambition and gearing up for the long game – a summary. This summary pulls out key recommendations from the report Where next for catchment…
Technical Report
Pasture For Humans
Protein harvesting from pasture has the potential to provide Aotearoa farmers with alternate land-use choice. For the farmer, the inclusion of protein harvesting has the…
Video
Winning the Green Premium: Horticulture Sector webinar
Consumers are demanding ever-greater sustainability in their food choices. That comes with a financial cost. How can producers earn more to cover these new costs?…