Meet our new Programme Partner – Rabobank Rabobank NZ We welcomed Rabobank on board as a Programme Partner in January this year and look forward to working with them and tapping into their extensive international and national networks and expertise. As the only Co-op bank focused on the Rural Sector, we could not have signed up a
Rural Leaders welcomes new CEO – Chris Parsons We are pleased to announce that Chris Parsons joined us on Monday, 4th May as our new CEO. Chris was recently interviewed by Rural News and would like to convey the following message: “To all of you on the journey to develop your leadership, well done! It
Are farmers equipped to deal with social judgement? In this podcast interview on ‘Unpopular Farmer’, 2019 Nuffield Scholar, Corrigan Sowman talks about his Nuffield experience and how ‘Social License’ prompted his research topic – ‘Farming in a Pressure Cooker: How pressure impacts farmer decision making.’ Corrigan’s research started off as a technical problem and ended
Ryan O’Sullivan: Nuffield Farming Scholarship recipient (2017) – Major shareholder with wife Tina in a farm equity partnership, Fairlie, South Canterbury Nuffield farming scholarships focus on the international perspective – where New Zealand fits in the global agri-food sector and what’s driving things. Through my scholarship travels and research, I’ve learned New Zealand is very
Nicky Barton’s research that she carried out on the Kellogg Rural Leadership Programme revealed ‘some interesting interactions between age and health and safety behaviours on-farm.’ Read more in this ODT article : https://www.odt.co.nz/…/rural-l…/farmer-deaths-correlate-age Nicky is the marketing and communications media manager for Worksafe and graduated from the Kellogg Rural Leadership Programme in 2019. Click here
Lisa Portas who is an Expansion Manager at Palliser Ridge, a Sheep & Beef Farm in South Wairarapa graduated from the Kellogg Rural Leadership Programme in 2019. Her research report ‘Farmer Storytelling : Navigating our Narrative‘ focuses on helping farmers to tell their stories to help explain to urban New Zealanders the realities of life
FoodHQ is delighted to be able to offer a limited number of scholarships for young professionals and postgraduate students with food/agriculture related interests to attend the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association (IFAMA) conference in Rotterdam in June 2020 (https://ifama2020.org/) and participate in the IFAMA Student Case Study competition. Click here to see if your
Media Release, 8 January 2020 The New Zealand Rural Leadership Trust is pleased to announce the appointment of Chris Parsons, MNZM, DSD as their new Chief Executive Officer. Chris Parsons will replace Anne Hindson on 04 May 2020, following her stepping down as General Manager at end of April. “We were thrilled by the quality
Our final E newsletter for the year is slightly later than planned and will hit you as you are winding down for the Xmas break. We hope that this later timing might mean you have some holiday reading!! With the year now completed for the Nuffield Scholarships and the Kellogg Rural Leadership Programmes, focus is
Click here to view the Rural Leaders 2020 Calendar of Events for the Nuffield and Kellogg Programmes.
WE ARE not alone as New Zealand farmers, feeling the weight of change bearing down on us. It is a global trend. It has many different, complex drivers but two stand out – consumers’ willingness to pay for sustainability and farmers ability to capture it. The resulting pressure is evident in a recent survey of
PRICES are good and interest rates are low but farmers’ moods are down because the regulatory pressure gives them little hope for the future. Researchers are furiously searching for more sustainable ways of farming food and fibre but what if there was a whole new sector that could provide a light at the end of
THERE is an increasing breakdown in the communications between young and older farmers and both are struggling to get what they want and need out of conversations. We have a generation of farmers raised by parents who lived through World War II, which shaped their childhoods and where no one spoke about the emotional stuff
FARMING the world over as much as the context, production and scale vary, shows, as the saying goes, the more things change, the more they stay the same. After nearly six months on the road of my Nuffield journey I was struck by the similarities across continents and farming systems. So many of the issues
AFTER almost half of this year travelling the world there are a lot of thoughts in my head regarding agriculture and farming. The biggest take-home for me is the universal problem of people wanting what they haven’t got simply through believing the grass is always greener over the fence and genuinely not understanding agriculture and
2 December 2019 Well done to Lucy Griffiths who was recently appointed by Minister Damien O’Connor to the independent Investment Advisory Panel (IAP) for Sustainable Food and Fibre Futures (SFF Futures). The advisory panel provides independent expert advice on both funding proposals and active programmes in NZ’s food and fibre industries. There is a $40
29th November 2019 Mat Hocken was announced as the 2019 Rabobank Emerging Leader at the Rabobank Leadership Awards on Thursday night (28th November). Our congratulations go out to Mat who is the first kiwi to receive this award! The Rabobank Leadership Awards are held annually recognising the contribution of leaders from across New Zealand and
14th November 2019 Ben McLauchlan, from Marlborough has been awarded a Nuffield Scholarship and has plans to study how to help agriculture reduce its use of fossil fuels. Read more about Ben’s Scholarship research plans over the next 12 months . Find out more about Nuffield NZ Farming Scholarships
Alice Rule, Kellogger and emerging young leader in sustainability, is researching the circular economy of glass in the New Zealand wine industry as part of her Kellogg research project. Through her work, she hopes to drive awareness about using glass made in New Zealand in the wine industry. Click here to find out more about
Media Release, Tuesday, 5th November 2019 Waikato based, Dairy Environment Leader, Dairy Farmer and recently appointed Dairy NZ board member, Tracy Brown is one of five scholars from across industry sectors awarded a Nuffield NZ Scholarship. The scholarships were announced on Tuesday, 5th November at parliament by Hon Stuart Nash, Minister of Police, Fisheries, Revenue, and Small
After our fantastically successful one day Summit alumni event in 2017 we promised you another one in three years (based on your preferred frequency). We are pleased to announce that our next Kellogg alumni event has been confirmed for 23 March 2020. What is even more exciting is that we are combining this event with the
Make the most of the two-week submission extension for the proposed new freshwater rules. Submissions will be accepted up until 31st October, so make sure you have your say. For more information or resources visit www.beeflamb.co.nz, www.dairynz.co.nz or www.mfe.govt.nz
The GFP has raised more questions than were answered of my understanding of global agriculture, but my understanding and empathy of the situations in which these questions are formed has expanded immensely.
Reflecting on six weeks traveling around the world with our China GFP group and the opportunity to contrast Asia, Europe and America, I am struck not by the differences between countries or continents but more importantly the similarities.
