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Adoption of land management technologies to protect water quality
This project is about better understanding farmers' adoption of nitrogen-mitigating technologies and systems in the Taupo and Rotorua catchments.
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The role of agricultural consultants in the New Zealand Research, Development and Extension system
This project is a pilot study of New Zealand agricultural consultants and aims to describe the role of agricultural consultancy within the New Zealand RD&E system with specific reference to their role in environmental management.
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Voluntary change policies
The project is intended to improve the theoretical framework and policy tools available for councils and government departments addressing biodiversity issues on privately-owned land.
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Delivering tools for improved environmental performance
This research programme is about reducing losses of nitrogen, phosphorus, sediment and faecal indicator organisms (FIO) from pastoral farming by providing farmer-friendly tools for measuring, understanding and mitigating these environmental impacts, and by ensuring these tools are adopted.
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The evaluation of four sheep and beef farmer groups in the Tairawhiti Region, New Zealand
This study is a three year body of work that aims to identify the progress of four different farmer programs in the Tairawhiti region, East Coast, of the North Island. We have recently completed the first year of work.
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Negotiating a New Zealand dairy future: tensions between the dairy feeds strategy and the dairy environmental strategy
This PhD study began in July 2007 with Auckland University. It is about identifying and describing the tensions between two strategies in the New Zealand dairy industry: a strategy for improving feeds and another that encourages environmental protection.
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The Role of Communities in coastal hazard mitigation
This project investigates the role that community groups can play in mitigating coastal hazards, the key factors that lead to successful or unsuccessful group outcomes and the influence that groups have on hazard mitigation policy. It is part of collaborative research between GNS Science, NIWA, and AgResearch on community participation in coastal hazard mitigation.
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Effectiveness of market instruments in controlling non-point source pollution
This project is about identifying the optimum policy measures to control non-point source pollution in Lake Taupo with special reference to the effectiveness of market-based instruments.
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Impact of farm context, farmer attitudes and perception of risk on the adoption of environment best management practices (EBP)
This project is about the adoption of environment management best practices. A mix of qualitative and quantitative research is being used.
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Developing a policy decision-making process matrix to maximize the adoption of environment best management practices (EBP) in New Zealand's dairy sector
This project is about developing a policy framework to enhance the adoption of EBP in the dairy sector by considering key adoption governing factors.
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Overseas market requirements of New Zealand dairy products.
This project is about describing current and anticipated market requirements that relate to environmental management on New Zealand dairy farms. It also estimates to what extent the dairy industry meets those changing requirements.
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Better Border Biosecurity (B3) - Human Dimensions
B3 is a large cooperative science programme researching ways to reduce the rate at which new unwanted organisms are becoming established in NZ. Because of its long geographic isolation, New Zealand enjoys the competitive advantage of having relatively few of the serious pests that plague productive ecosystems elsewhere. Much of B3's research is aimed at protecting New Zealand's primary production from such pests.
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FlockMaster™
This project is about helping farmers to take better control of ewe efficiency in order to increase lamb production.
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FeedSmart: Feed assessment, prediction and planning
This is a research, development and extension project which aims to improve how sheep and beef farmers assess, predict and plan their use of feed.
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New Zealand's perceptions of primary industry
The project provides MAF with a description of current institutional knowledge about urban views (values and beliefs associated with their actual behaviour) of primary industry and how these may conflict with rural landowner's views.
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Policy framework for industry adoption and knowledge transfer
This project describes what is known about the influence of farmer decision making, communities, and industry organisations upon innovation in farming businesses to increase primary industry productivity.
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Pohangina Valley landscape and community development
This project describes how a community can go about producing its own development plan through community education and collective decision making.
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Modelling Tools for Measuring Environmental Performance
This project is about engaging more farmers in nutrient budgeting.
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Wise Use of N-Fertiliser on Hill Country Pastures
The main objective of this project was to demonstrate the wise use of fertiliser nitrogen (N) under commercial conditions in a range of hill farming situations in order to encourage practices that enhance long-term farm profitability whilst minimising potential detrimental environmental effects.
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