Papers presented at the New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (Inc.) eleventh Annual Conference : Tahuna Conference Centre, Nelson, August 2005

Abstract

The main themes for this Conference are: Agriculture, Agribusiness, Natural Resources and the Environment. This discussion paper includes the full text of the following papers: D Bewell, G Kaine, Adoption of environmental best practice amongst dairy farmers; J Sinner, A Fenemor, J Palmer, The adoption of market-based instruments for resource management: Three case studies; A E Dooley, D Smeaton, S F Ledgard, Identification of important criteria in farm systems decisions around Lake Taupo;

A E Dooley, G Sheath, D Smeaton, Multiple criteria decision making: Method selection and application to three contrasting agricultural case studies;

T Ramilan, F Scrimgeour, Modelling Waikato farm nitrogen discharges for policy analysis;

N Jollands, M Ruth, C Bernier, N Golubiewski, Climate's long term impact on New Zealand infrastructure - A case study of Hamilton City, New Zealand;

W Kaye-Blake, Neoclassical consumer theory and genetically modified food;

S Awatere, The influence of cultural identity on willingness to pay values in contingent

valuation surveys;

G Kerr, R Cullen, K Hughey, Stated preference evaluation of government budgets;

Y Takatsuka, R Cullen, M Wilson and S Wratten, Values of ecosystem services and organic farming on arable land;

A N Rae, H Ma, J Huang, S Rozelle, Livestock in China: Commodity-specific total factor productivity decomposition using new panel data;

A Wreford, C Saunders, S Rasin, An analysis of agricultural trade policy reforms and their impact on the EU, China and New Zealand;

A Rae, S Shakur, The WTO Doha Negotiations: Fallacies and Priorities;

K Bicknell, L Friesen, I MacDonald, A hedonic price analysis of the New Zealand wine industry;

D Marsh, How can economists help clear landmines and unexploded ordnance?;

M Cameron, S Lim, Migration, household composition, and child welfare in Rural Northeast Thailand;

B Khakal, H Bigsby, R Cullen, Forestry policy and poverty: the case of community forestry in Nepal;

P Kaval, J Loomis, The relationship between wildfire and welfare;

P Khanh Trinh, P Kaval, The importance of indigenous biodiversity values of Waikato farms;

E Moran, RCullen, K Hughey, Financing threatened species management: the costs of single species programmes and the budget constraint;

G Hawke, R Lattimore, Scoping the history of economics in New Zealand;

D Lillis, Developing agricultural statistics (slides);

S Harris, M Doak, S Ford, T Bywater, J Bright, B Thorrold, Regional economic impact of water allocation and reliability;

P O'Connor, What can we learn from horse racing;

D Pannell, Policies and politics: Challenges and opportunities for agricultural and resource economists;

A Patterson, S Martin, D Mollenkopf, Niche agribusiness supply chains and the channel coordinator's role in their creation and management;

B Small, A Murphy-Macintosh, I Tarbotton, N Botha, Pastoral farmer goals and intensification strategies;

D Lillis, J Fairweather, R Sanson, Smallholdings in New Zealand;

R Johnson, The structure and economic impact of R&D organisation in New Zealand;

N Botha, K Atkins, An assessment of five theoretical frameworks to study the uptake of innovations;

K Bicknell, G Frisvold, A preliminary analysis of the returns to apoximis in rice;

J Hendy, Simulating rural land-use change in New Zealand with the model land use in rural New Zealand model (LURNZ);

S Kerr, Projecting Changes in Land Use and Animal Numbers with LURNZ and PSRM;

J Hendy, S Kerr, Greenhouse gas emission factor module: Land use in Rural New Zealand- Climate Version 1;

I Sin, E Brunton, J Hendy, S Kerr, The likely social impacts of an agricultural emissions policy in New Zealand: Preliminary analysis;

S Kerr, Tradeable carbon credits for plantation forestry: A Straw Man;

J Funk, S Kerr, J Hendy, A pilot project for indigenous forest reversion.