Nitrogen losses from agricultural are a key source of human impacts on the environment,
and many countries have adopted policies to reduce nitrogen losses. Policy in New Zealand …

Land is an important social and economic resource. Knowing the spatial distribution of land
use and the expected location of future land-use change is important to inform decision …

Pastoral farming can result in adverse environmental effects such as nitrogen leaching and
greenhouse gas emissions. However, the cost of mitigation and hence the socially …

New Zealand faces the challenge of using our land in ways that are not only resilient to
future pressures and sustain our rural communities but also enhance our natural …

This paper lays out the mathematical foundation of the Primary Value Chains (PVC) model,
which is a geographically-explicit, dynamic partial equilibrium model of regional value …

1. The Primary Sector Council commissioned the Agribusiness and Economics Research
Unit (AERU) at Lincoln University to prepare this situational analysis that provides a global …

Decisions on land utilisation and management have socio-economic and environmental
implications. In this study, I use a mixed-methods approach to explore how Māori land …

Agricultural adaptation to climate change is often simulated by changes in land use over
time. Land use is commonly optimised in economic models, which rests on the neoclassical …

This project was completed to understand if sheep and beef farmers in NZ can use partial
land use diversification to improve environmental sustainability and farm business …

The LUS classification system will be based on concatenation of three categories: land-use
potential, contribution to catchment contaminant delivery, and pressure in receiving …