Nuffield Reports
2024
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Apply for a 2026 Nuffield NZ Farming Scholarship by 17 August.
Putting the Success back into Succession.
New Zealand’s farm succession faces challenges due to aging farmers, rising land prices, and financial barriers. The report explores alternative models like share-farming and equity partnerships, emphasising the need for early planning, government support, and industry leadership. Innovative succession pathways are crucial for sustaining the agricultural sector’s future.
Coding for Change: Navigating adoption of gene editing in the New Zealand primary sector.
Gene editing in New Zealand’s primary sector offers opportunities to address climate change, sustainability, and productivity. Proposed legislation aims to align regulations with trading partners, balancing innovation with public trust. Early engagement, investment in innovation, and leadership in regulatory frameworks are essential to enhance competitiveness and drive sector growth.
Changing the Bog-Standard: Repeatable solutions for Aotearoa's Peatlands.
Occupying only 1% of Aotearoa’s land yet holding close to a fifth of the nation’s ecosystem carbon, New Zealand’s peatlands are indispensable but rapidly degrading. This report does not offer a silver bullet, but a new way of looking at what we’ve long called marginal land. It suggests that peatlands, when managed well, can be part of our productivity, our identity, and our climate response—not in spite of their wetness, but because of it.
Beyond the Farm Gate: Rethinking New Zealand’s Economic Future.
Agriculture and tourism in New Zealand face growth limits, threatening export earnings. With global trade shifting and land constraints increasing, we must rethink NZ’s economic future; exploring high-value industries, supply chain control, and innovation. It’s time to ask: what comes after agriculture and tourism to sustain long-term prosperity?
Primary Sector Insights Reports
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