This report, and the research which informs it, was commissioned by the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA). Its purpose is to examine whether societal acceptance issues are significantly limiting the ...

The following report presents a summary of findings from a series of publications arising from the FRST Public Good Science Fund programme ‘Optimum Development of Certified Organic Horticulture in New Zealand’. This research ...

This report provides an overview of the key design features of the Agriculture Research Group on Sustainability (ARGOS) programme. This ongoing long-term research project started in 2003, involving a group of around 20 ...

The ARGOS (Agriculture Research Group on Sustainability) project was designed to enable the interrogation of the condition of sustainability in the New Zealand agriculture sector. To account for the country’s reliance on ...

As the rationale for the social research objective within ARGOS, this document provides a preliminary discussion of the theoretical and methodological approach being taken by the social researchers in the project. As such, ...

Sustainability forms a key concept within the Agriculture Research Group on Sustainability (ARGOS) project. Since the project was initiated in 2004, however, sustainability has been exposed to increasing scrutiny as an ...

The core of the ARGOS research design is a longitudinal panel study of New Zealand farms (including orchards in the case of the kiwifruit sector). Panels of 12 farms were selected to represent conventional, integrated and ...

This report provides an introduction to New Zealand’s pipfruit industry, and a review of different attempts within the industry to produce fruit which has an enhanced environmental or ‘food safety’ profile. While the New ...

He Kōhinga Rangahau is the research report series of Te Tiaki Mahinga Kai, a national coalition of tangata kaitiaki, researchers, and managers dedicated to sustained enhancement of the cultural, economic, social, and ...