The goal of this research was to assess why genetic engineering (GE) agricultural technology was embraced in some industrialized nations (United States) while it evokes extreme concern and aversion in others (New Zealand). GE ...

Markets for New Zealand's sheepmeat products, particularly for lamb, are dynamic and changing. In this study, markets for lamb which have been growing in the recent past and which might reasonably be expected to continue ...

According to Porter (1990), there are certain characteristics of a country that allow its industries to create and sustain competitive advantage, or prevent them from doing so. The objective of this study was to identify ...

The theme of the conference this year is 1984-1994: Ten Years of Progress? The last decade has seen considerable change to the New Zealand economy and the agricultural sector. We have seen significant changes in fiscal ...

Dairy products and beef are New Zealand's main export commodities, accounting for 22 per cent of total merchandise exports (Statistics New Zealand, 2005). The European Union (EU) is commonly known for distorting international ...

This is a report about the development and delivery of economic and policy analysis in the agriculture and agri-food sector in New Zealand and how government reform has affected this activity. This report was prepared ...

The themes for the 1991 Conference of the New Zealand Branch of the Australian Agricultural Economics Society were Agricultural Outlook, Economics and Policy, Farm Management, and Marketing and Business. This discussion ...

The primary objective of this paper is to assess the validity of New Zealand's negotiating strategies with Japan over the question of improved access for New Zealand's agricultural, forestry and fish products in the ...

Over the last three seasons there has been a gradual increase in average carcass weight of export lambs slaughtered (Table 1). Favourable environmental and, to a certain extent, economic conditions have enabled and ...

This paper is based on the assumptions that world oil resources are finite and that world oil production will peak sometime in the 1980s or 1990s (Hughes & Mesarovic 1978 : 139). Such a scenario is now widely accepted ...