MPI Technical Paper no: 2021/12

Prepared for the Ministry for Primary Industries and the Ministry for the Environment by the Science Advisory Panel

Applied adaptation pathways provide a useful framework for strategic planning for primary industries. This report describes the ways in which climate change will affect primary industries in Hawke’s Bay. The regional pathway method provides insight into how decision taken in one domain/sector can have an impact on others, and how the region can prioritise action.

This project developed a soil organic carbon (SOC) monitoring framework and a method for estimating SOC, total nitrogen stocks, and stock changes at national scales. The method is designed to monitor soil carbon stocks and stock changes through time for a specified land use, to track the effect of management and/or climate change impacts on the soil carbon and nitrogen resource. The method could be implemented on managed agricultural land on flat-rolling topography.