Corporate publications

We are updating an omission in the Current and Past Policy Initiatives table.

This document summarises MPI's achievements over the 2018/19 year and describes our performance in striving to reach our outcomes.

The 2018/19 Annual Report for the Ministry for Primary Industries won a Bronze Award in the 2020 Australasian Reporting Awards (ARA) announced on 17 June 2020. The ARA Awards are an opportunity to benchmark reports against best practice and Australasian peers, and to receive recognition for excellence in reporting.

This document summarises MPI's achievements over the 2016/17 year and describes our performance in striving to reach our outcomes.

The food and fibre sector’s span is considerable, from paddock, orchard, forest and ocean, through to the processing, packaging, and transportation system, all the way to the market, and ultimately to consumers worldwide. Its activities cover 52 percent of New Zealand’s land mass, and 4 million square kilometres of ocean.

This document sets out the Ministry for Primary Industries’ (MPI’s) medium-term strategy and demonstrates how MPI plans to deliver the shifts in performance required to be an exemplary organisation over the next four years.

Strategic Intentions 2015–2020 builds on the previous Statement of Intent 2014–2019. It also sets out how MPI will deliver on government priorities, as well as cross-agency and primary sector initiatives.

This is the first Statement of Intent (SOI) for the new Ministry for Primary Industries. The SOI is one way through which we articulate and help the organisation to set its direction over the year ahead. It is a legal and public articulation of what we are going to be focusing on to help the primary industries to be successful.

Statement of Intent 2013-2018
The Statement of Intent (SOI) is a key element of the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) public accountability narrative. At a high level it signals the benefit that MPI is seeking to achieve for the primary sector and for all New Zealanders. The SOI sets out key challenges and opportunities associated with MPI’s Export Double goal and details how these factors will shape MPI’s work programmes and capability development over the next five years.

The Statement of Intent (SOI) sets out what the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) will do over the next five years to achieve its vision of Growing and Protecting New Zealand. SOI takes into account New Zealand’s dynamic trading environment and the Government’s goals of building a more productive and competitive economy, as well as delivering better public services.

MPI’s 2022-2024 Action Plan outlines our progress made to date and the next steps to accelerate this progress aligned with Kia Toipoto (Public Service Pay Gaps Action Plan). MPI’s first Gender Pay Action Plan was developed in 2018. As well as gender, MPI has a strengthened focus on understanding and addressing the drivers of Māori, Pacific Peoples and other ethnic pay gaps. MPI’s 2022-2024 Action Plan will build on the success of our previous plan, with a focus on monitoring the impact of our actions, embedding previous gains and identifying how we can accelerate progress across existing and new priority areas.