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Consumer sustainability and overseas markets
(Lincoln University. Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit, 2010)
Aim: Maximum return from the sustainable
use of resources in NZ. This presentation looks at: market access and trends, NZ brand, export risks and opportunities, carbon footprinting, sustainability, local food, low carbon ...
Preliminary economic evaluation of biopharming in New Zealand
(Lincoln University. Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit, 2007-03)
From the academic literature, this report derives an economic model or framework for considering biopharming. This model is based on a cost-benefit approach to valuing changes in products and production methods. The model ...
Comparative energy and greenhouse gas emissions of New Zealand's and the UK's dairy industry
(Lincoln University. Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit, 2007-07)
This research report builds upon the AERU Research Report No. 285 on Food Miles - Comparative energy/emissions performance of New Zealand's agriculture industry (Saunders et al. 2006). This report adds greenhouse gas ...
Research rationale for the economic objective, ARGOS
(Agriculture Research Group on Sustainability, 2005-02)
The primary interest of an economist is the allocation of scarce resources to satisfy infinite“wants”, and several theories on how this can be done has been developed. The mostprominent and well known of these theories are ...
A review of research on economic impacts of climate change
(Lincoln University. Agribusiness & Economics Research Unit, 2009-04)
This report reviews prior research on several topics associated with anthropogenic climate change resulting from concentration of CO2 and other gases in the atmosphere. It represents the first step in a project whose aim ...
The costs of Psa-V to the New Zealand kiwifruit industry and the wider community
(Lincoln University. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 2012-05)
This report describes research commissioned by Kiwifruit Vine Health Inc. into the costs
imposed by Psa-V, a bacterial disease of kiwifruit, on the New Zealand kiwifruit industry
since the disease was first identified in ...
Air freight transport of fresh fruit and vegetables
(Lincoln University. Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit., 2007-10)
The increasing international trade in fresh fruit and vegetables has started to raise concerns about the distance that food travels and the emissions associated with its transport. The term food miles has been coined to ...
Economics objective synthesis report
(Agriculture Research Group on Sustainability, 2007-07)
The research undertaken by the ARGOS Economic Research Objective includes a wide
range of research areas, many of which do not involve comparison of data from sector
panels. The team monitors and reviews market access ...
Mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions : the impacts on a developed country highly dependent on agriculture
(Lincoln University. Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit, 2003-08)
This paper focuses on the impact of mitigating greenhouse gases (GHG) on agricultural trade. In particular, the paper assesses the impact on New Zealand (NZ), which is highly reliant on agricultural trade, with a high ...
The key elements of success and failure in the NZ sheep meat industry from 1980 - 2007
(Lincoln University. Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit, 2008-08)
This study explores the nature and performance of the New Zealand sheep meat industry from 1980 to 2007. As almost 94 per cent of sheep meat produced in New Zealand is exported the focus of this study is on the export ...