On Wednesday evening Rural Leaders hosted the 2022 Nuffield New Zealand Farming Scholarship Awards in Wellington. This was an opportunity to formally award scholarships to Parmindar Singh, Lucie Douma and Anthony Taueki – a year later than planned. While it was a smaller occasion than it might have been, it was no less important. Hon.
A message from our CEO Chris Parsons, MNZM, DSD, CMinstD. As the year flies by all too fast, I thought it good to pause a moment to highlight a key development that we have been working on for just over a year and to acknowledge some of the achievements that Nuffield and Kellogg Scholars and
Lynsey Stratford has discovered farmers make a few assumptions that aren’t very helpful – like accepting the fact that work might be dangerous and there’s nothing anyone can do about it. As Lynsey explains, “There are changes we can make, but those assumptions and those mindsets have been deeply held for quite some time.”
1. Identify Nuffield’s goals. As simple as it sounds, applicants often don’t fully understand what the broader goals and objectives of Nuffield are. An application written with consideration to ‘giving back’ for example, will go a long way to increasing your chances of gaining an interview. You’ll ideally be able to show evidence of giving
Julian Raine is a 1997 Nuffield Scholar who quietly gets on with things worth shouting about. Julian runs a mixed Dairy and Horticulture operation and no matter what he’s producing, the one constant is innovation. From robots to getting back to milk in glass, Julian has an entrepreneur’s motivation and an innovator’s foresight.
Here’s an introduction from Rural Leaders CEO Chris Parsons, on the new Dairy Insights report. New Zealand’s food and fibre sector is full of capable, and purpose driven people. Supported by DairyNZ, Livestock Improvement Corporation and an incredible group of partners, the New Zealand Rural Leadership Trust is privileged to be entrusted with growing many
One of the highlights of the Kellogg Rural Leadership Programme is the Wellington based, Phase Two. Scholars of the 48th Kellogg Programme (internally referred to as K48), will begin their Phase Two in September. The week is delivered in a specific order designed to reveal the political and economic context carefully, each step building on
Indigenous forest land and the carbon sequestration opportunity for New Zealand landowners always seems to be downplayed — deemed too expensive, too hard, or inferior compared to exotic forests. Kanuka, manuka, regenerating native vegetation or planted native restoration sites hold a significant opportunity for carbon sequestration.
Farmers face adversity from multiple sources and additional challenges to other sectors of society. To date, there does not appear to be a simple high-level resilience-focused model for how farmers can be more resilient ‘personally’. This article, which is the result of a Kellogg Rural Leadership Study on ‘How Resilient Farmers Thrive in the Face of Adversity‘, is a first step towards developing that model. The study found there were three key strategies that facilitated farmer resilience – purpose, connection and well-being.
From Bluff Station to Cambridge University and back.
Ideas That Grow: Kate Scott, 2018 Nuffield Scholar. The interview with Kate Scott took place in May 2022 and the version below was edited for clarity. Listen to the podcast above for the original conversation. Bryan Gibson – Editor of Farmer’s Weekly. I’m Bryan Gibson, editor of the Farmer’s Weekly. And today we are talking
After recent Nuffield strategic work, the Rural Leaders Team and the NZRLT Board have identified five highly desirable core attributes of a Nuffield Scholar. These won’t come as any great surprise to Nuffield Alumni, but articulating these simply has been a valuable exercise, especially as our 2023 Scholarship search is set to begin. Here are
Lucie Douma and Parmindar Singh, 2022 Nuffield New Zealand Farming Scholars, have been in Norfolk, UK, for the Contemporary Scholars Conference (CSC). Back after two years’ hiatus, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the CSC ran between 7 and 15 March. The Contemporary Scholars Conference – all together now, finally. The Conference gathers Scholars from the
Based on campus since 1979, the Kellogg Rural Leadership Programme has a long connection with Lincoln University, having been developed by the Kellogg Company as a way of enhancing global leadership capability. In 2013, the programme was transferred to the newly-formed New Zealand Rural Leadership Consortium, which merged it with the prestigious Nuffield New Zealand
A collaboration between Whanganui and Partners and Rural Leaders, Strategy for Lunch, has been created to meet a need among business owners, to engage more confidently in business strategy discussions and design. The programme consists of five neatly wrapped, bite-size, online sessions that provide the tools and knowledge to help Whanganui business owners build their
KPMG New Zealand and the University of Waikato have partnered to deliver a new and unique Food and Fibre Insights Course. The part-time, six-week course is targeted at working professionals who are seeking to expand their knowledge of topics at the forefront of agri-food systems. Facilitated by Ian Proudfoot, Jack Keeys, Professor Frank Srimgeour, and
Te Puni Kōkiri is generously sponsoring two places on Whanganui’s Kellogg Rural Leadership Programme, May start. This is an extraordinary scholarship opportunity, covering programme fees and giving applicants the chance to develop leadership skills closer to home. These scholarships are open to passionate Māori as part of their leadership journey in the Food and Fibre Sector.
Meet you Saturday night at Springston Hall. Did you know Mary Bumby introduced honeybees to New Zealand in 1839? No? Incredibly, her name has nothing to do with the naming of Bumble Bees, or any bees. Quite possibly history’s greatest example of a surname impacting the course of a life. The seven Tasman Region finalists
Kellogg has had to adapt during the Pandemic, to a hybrid model, working both online with tools like Zoom, and in-person when it is safe to do so. One positive thing about video calls, and for some one might be a stretch, is being able to sit on the side-lines occasionally, with mute on and
Ben Todhunter is a 2006 Nuffield Scholar and High Country Farmer. He farms Cleardale Station with his family in the Rakaia Gorge, Canterbury.
The Value Chain Innovation Programme is made up of three phases spanning six weeks from May 9 to June 19. The Study Tour will take place between 15 and 27 May 2022.
Work on the Mackenzie study continues with Professor Nathan Berg of the Otago Business School and the Department of Economics made possible with the support of the Mackenzie Charitable Foundation. Since receiving the results on the gains attributable to participation in the Nuffield Scholarship, collation of results from the Kellogg Alumni survey has now begun. While
Lincoln University and the New Zealand Rural Leadership Trust (Rural Leaders), hit the road last week, travelling throughout South and Mid Canterbury and Central Otago. Professor Hamish Gow of Lincoln University and Chris Parsons, Rural leaders’ CEO, have successfully established stronger links with the horticulture sector and in particular, growers from the pip and stone
There are figures on our primary sector’s labour transience that make for alarming reading. They’re remarkably high. In case you missed them, only 29% of those entering the primary sector remain after three years. While factors behind the statistics are complicated, one of the simpler, often cited reasons for leaving the sector is poor workplace
