Holt, LRenwick, AJohnstone, PDynes, RKing, WCurrie, LDChristensen, CL2020-09-2220190112-9902https://hdl.handle.net/10182/12753As farms throughout NZ face increasing pressure to reduce livestock intensity, there is increasing support to plant more trees, for example the one billion tree programme. Agroforestry systems that incorporate woody perennial trees on farms are widely proven with dominant systems in NZ being discrete woodlots grown for timber and/or carbon sequestration, widely spaced trees for erosion control, and shelter and amenity plantings. As farmers are encouraged to take up next generation systems (NGS), being the redesigns of production systems or new enterprises or technologies that can break the lockstep relationship between profitability, production and environmental footprint, some rural entrepreneurs are showing a shared interest in new agroforestry systems that could dissolve the barriers between livestock, horticulture crops and forest trees. This paper reviews the case for a novel agroforestry system in the Rotorua lakes catchments, based on an interest in trees that can produce edible nuts shared by three quite different rural entrepreneurs; a Māori forest owner, a small block/life-style farmer, and a sheep/beef/forest farmer. Each entrepreneur has been independently exploring the changes they can make to their land use systems by either implementing field trials through to getting a fine spatial resolution, biophysical suitability assessment that considers current and future climates. These entrepreneurs have also worked through a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) framework developed to assess land use business decisions influenced by a range of factors, including regional environmental limits. The assessments identified that they all had common value priorities for the environment and social well-being. Posed as key next steps to de-risking this novel agroforestry system is to build on these value synergies using cross-sector collaborations, and to explore scalability options across the different landscapes.10 pagesen© The Authors and FLRCagroforestrymulti-criteria decision makingnext generation systemscollaborationscalabilityConference Contribution - publishedANZSRC::0701 Agriculture, Land and Farm ManagementANZSRC::070108 Sustainable Agricultural DevelopmentANZSRC::070501 Agroforestry2230-3944