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 ...

With the choice of forward looking theme for this year's conference, we have embarked on providing a vision for the New Zealand agricultural sector in the 21st Century. We decided to address this theme by focusing on four ...

This year a trend which has been gaining momentum is the rise of environmentalism. With increasing global environmental awareness has come increased consumer expectations for environmental quality in production processes. ...

The fifth annual conference of the New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society covers the policy and legislation changes relative to agriculture and resource use, as well as the impact of broader policy changes. ...

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 ...

This booklet contains references to almost all New Zealand published work in the agricultural field in 1964. The list comprises two selections: the first, which is arranged alphabetically by subject headings, includes ...

Since 1968 agricultural production in New Zealand has been virtually stagnant. In 1975 studies were undertaken at the Agricultural Economics Research Unit to investigate some of the main causes of the fall off in the rate ...

Over a decade ago the Committee of Inquiry into Lending to Farmers (1972:19) reported that the evidence submitted to us indicated that there has been reasonable availability of loan finance for creditworthy borrowers. ...

Two broad arguments are employed to justify proposals for a government sponsored closer settlement policy. The first argument involves testing three different theories of social policy against the pattern of New Zealand ...

Farming is an industry which depends on the work, decisions and competence of a large number of individual farmers, each of them running their own farm business. These business units vary widely in the resources at their ...