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Agribusiness

Adam Williamson

Adam Williamson

This report seeks to gain understanding of farmer water quality perspectives in the Amuri Basin and what factors in their farming systems they were prepared to adopt to achieve better water quality outcomes, along with identifying what the barriers to implementation are.
Emma Harvey

Emma Harvey

Exploring agritourism as a way for farmers to boost resilience amid inflation, environmental pressure and price volatility through income diversification.
Emma Weston

Emma Weston

Veterinarians are vital to MPI’s export, biosecurity, and food safety systems. This research identifies key retention challenges and offers strategies to build a resilient, engaged veterinary workforce.
Jack Dwyer

Jack Dwyer

Leadership in NZ agriculture now values people management. This report conducted a study of farm leaders and found trust, empathy, and reflection are key traits, developed through experience and mentorship. This excellent report offers practical leadership insights for first-time managers.
Michele Findlay

Michele Findlay

This report by Michele Findlay examines how rural managers build trusted, high-value relationships with clients in food and fibre. It identifies attributes, leadership practices, and organisational support for high performance, highlighting trust-building, technical and interpersonal skills, and proactive insight.
Daniel Judd

Daniel Judd

Soil lays the foundation of all farming productivity. Farmers’ soil management is influenced by multiple factors, especially scientific perceptions. Studies on soil function and productivity are limited or non-existent. This paper highlights farmers’ views, challenges, and the drivers behind their perceptions and management practices.

Jordi Hoult

This report explores how leadership development can be enhanced for mid-career professionals in New Zealand's agrifood sector, addressing gaps and promoting inclusivity and innovation.

Anita Fleming

This report aims to identify key inflexion points for New Zealand agriculture to adopt sustainable practices, enhance market opportunities, and drive systemic transformation through collaborative value chains.
Hamish Symons

Hamish Symons

With a changing New Zealand climate causing more frequent and more severe dry spells, including in regions previously seen as less vulnerable, the reliability of supplying food to meet our goals and expectations is in question.

Juan Giacomozzi

This report explores the evolving landscape of gene technology in NZ, focusing on the implications of genetic modification (GM) and the New Breeding Techniques (NBTs) for the agricultural sector.

Lisa Lunn

This report examines the integration of genetic technologies into New Zealand agriculture, focusing on their benefits and risks, the regulatory changes needed, and the support required for adoption by the public and farmers.

Richard Pedley

This report examines how New Zealand's agricultural sector can integrate business strategy, regenerative design, and sustainability legislation to create regenerative farm blueprints that enhance Freshwater Farm Plans.

Wyatt Johnston

The impetus for this report comes from the need for KiwiSaver funds to diversify their asset bases and identifies barriers inhibiting KiwiSaver providers from investing in primary sector assets.

Megan Fox

This report explores role-value within The Food and Fibre Sector, and aims to align workplace practices Generation Z’s expectations. It offers recommendations to enhance business performance, and foster career development.

Louis Batley

This report aims to understand the benefits of using the Harvard Case Method (HCM), with particular reference to the Strategic Thinking for Agrifood Management Programme, for early career stage leadership development.

Tessa Appleby

This report, Eradicating Complacency, investigates the current perception and understanding of Bovine TB with farmers and industry, to gauge if there is a level of complacency happening with the disease in NZ.

Kirsten Holmes

This research report examines the current state of women in food and fibre governance.

Bryce Devane

This report seeks to uncover if improved governance is something that family farming businesses requires and how could it be implemented.

Nicholas Jolly

This report outlines the principles that should underpin the development of a new regulatory regime and provides suggestions on how to proceed.

Chris Beatson

This report looks at how process mapping could be used in farm consultancy for application in a case study setting.

Murray Dyer

This report looks at the key denominators enhancing the commercial success for an agritech business.

Steve Hydes

This report looks at how smaller AgriTech start-ups have used professional assistance, with the objective of better understanding of why or why not assistance is obtained and the timing around these decisions.

Vanessa Thomson

This report examines who the stakeholders are in the rural psychosocial ecosystem, how farmers interact with these stakeholders, and how these stakeholders in turn interact together. It aims to understand the challenges to delivery of psychosocial services, and possible solutions.

Jemima Snook

This report seeks to understand how farmers are using NFR to generate more value in their business, and how they communicate their non-financial information to stakeholders.