This report summarises potential impacts of climate change on pests, weeds and
diseases of relevance to New Zealand’s biosecurity systems. It represents the best
current information from experts in the Crown Research Institutes and Lincoln University.

Identification, quantification, modelling and economic assessment of options for the management of poultry, piggery and dairy waste to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions via anaerobic digestion and associated biogas utilisation for energy generation.

This report aims to develop a predictive lifetime feed intake model for sheep to enable sensitivity testing of different on-farm genetic and management technologies for methane mitigation.

This report provides new data on soil CH4 oxidation in reverting shrubland. It describes new research, using recently acquired knowledge of the mechanisms regulating soil CH4 oxidation, to develop a practical technology for capturing emissions from housed animals, effluent ponds, and landfills.

This report identifies novel mitigation strategies for reducing nitrous oxide emissions from ruminant urine patches and aims to identify the microbial nitrous oxide emission pathway affected by the mitigation strategy.

This report, commissioned by MAF, assesses a selected range of policy instruments for mitigation of greenhouse gases in agriculture. The report assesses these options against evaluation criteria and looks at short-term options and longer term strategy.

The purpose of this report is to draw out key lessons on how science and environmental knowledge have been used in the past to achieve desired environmental outcomes. Phase Three covers the final stage and is an account of observations made during the process of discussing the research findings with the key stakeholders. three topic areas of soil erosion, pest control and nitrogen management.

Traditionally, New Zealand pastoral farmers have adapted their farming systems in response to extreme climatic events. This project will research these responses to provide information on how farmers could (and should) adapt to the extreme climatic events that may result from climate change.

Traditionally, New Zealand pastoral farmers have adapted their farming systems in response to extreme climatic events. This project will research these responses to provide information on how farmers could (and should) adapt to the extreme climatic events that may result from climate change.

Traditionally, New Zealand pastoral farmers have adapted their farming systems in response to extreme climatic events. This project will research these responses to provide information on how farmers could (and should) adapt to the extreme climatic events that may result from climate change.

This report examines the psychological, social and other factors that determine farmers' different responses to environmental change. In particular, it is designed to explain why some farmers implement environmental strategies but others remain intransigent and resistant to change.

The goal of this research is to construct four sheep calorimeters as well as a prototype calorimeter for cattle to provide New Zealand with world class facilities for the rapid and highly accurate measurement of methane (CH4) emissions from forage fed ruminants.

This report aims to generate productivity surfaces for indigenous forest species and Pinus radiata for New Zealand. These surfaces were generated for current and anticipated future climatic conditions for pinus radiata. For indigenous forests, the work used predictive modelling techniques to produce spatial models of tree diameter increment. Estimating the growth rate of these forests accurately will enable optimal siting of future plantations and enhance national policy formulation.

The objective of this study is to quantify the risk posed by wind damage to
planted forests in New Zealand and to investigate different options that owners of
forests registered under the Emissions Trading Scheme can use to manage this risk.

This report focuses on the identification and analysis of voluntary carbon market opportunities for agriculture and forestry sectors in New Zealand given current rules and New Zealand's policy settings and implications for these opportunities under future scenarios. Three key research activities are: creating an inventory of opportunities; assessing these opportunities in a global market context; and suggesting ways in which MAF may best guide these opportunities.

This report provides an initial assessment of the current state of awareness of and anticipated response to the proposed emissions trading scheme (ETS) and associated afforestation policies among pastoral farmers in New Zealand.