The impact of floods on the primary sector was first assessed nationally and then for the Awanui River Catchment in Northland. The analyses focused on the impacts of flooding on the primary sector, including changes in land uses as an adaption response to floods with climate change and subsequent changes in economic and environmental indicators. The specific objectives of the analysis are to:

1 quantify New Zealand’s primary sector exposure to flood hazards.

2 quantify the primary sector’s exposure and financial losses from floods in one catchment – the Awanui catchment.

3 analyse the impacts of flooding on land-use change and economic and environmental indicators.

4 evaluate economic and social welfare changes from floods-induced land-use change.

KPMG was commissioned by Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) to evaluate Te Uru Rakau's (TUR) enablement of he 1 Billion Trees fund (1BT) outcomes.

The scope of this evaluation covers TUR's role in effectively optimising and enabling 1BT's ability to deliver the programme outcomes, not the achievement of the specific outcomes themselves.