Nuffield 2008 Reports
James Parsons
New Zealand’s meat and wool industry must pursue the value chain approach with all speed. But producers must enter them with enough collective strength to ensure they aren’t squeezed on price as they are today. Instead of being retail-led value chains they must be producer-led chains. Chains that have a firm consumer focus with producer owned niche brands.
- 2008
- Nuffield 2008
Craige Mackenzie
Climate Change has become one of the crucial issues of the early 21st Century. Pressures are increasing on agribusinesses to reduce carbon emissions. This drive for change is coming from an international level, not just nationally. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), established in 1988 by the United Nations, has played a huge part … Read more
- 2008
- Nuffield 2008
Ali Undorf-Lay
As you drive around the New Zealand countryside it is not uncommon to hear farmers talk about a widening gap between rural and urban people. They say, that the lack of non-farmer understanding of ‘all things rural’ has let to unrealistic consumer expectations and too much regulation. Farmers are feeling disillusioned by the lack of … Read more
- 2008
- Nuffield 2008