scholarly journals The Dairy Oracle: A cultural and design exploration of New Zealand dairy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Lily Nichols
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Dairy Farming ◽  
Site Visit ◽  
Farming Practices ◽  
Farmers Market ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Observational Site ◽  
The Future

<p>The intensification and expansion of New Zealand’s dairy industry have caused animal welfare and environmental sustainability issues to arise. Animal welfare issues directly impact the physical and mental wellbeing of cattle, and environmental sustainability issues contribute to climate change, impact human and animal health and cause biodiversity loss. As the first step to creating a better world for dairy cattle and sustaining the environment for future generations, this research investigates how cultural and design research can be used to understand what New Zealand dairy is today and imagine what it could become in the future. Semi-structured interviews and an observational site visit were conducted with the Happy Cow Milk Company founder and one of their dairy farmers. The interviews and site visit focused on developing an understanding of the participant’s values, their relationships with their cows and the land, and how they address their dairy farming concerns through their farming practices. This cultural research provided insight into what the participants considered the most significant animal welfare and environmental sustainability issues in New Zealand and how these issues could be addressed through alternative dairy farming practices and farmer, cattle, and environmental relationships. The cultural research then inspired the development of the experimental discursive prototype, The Dairy Oracle. This prototype aims to prompt discussion around existing understandings of New Zealand dairy farming and spark imagination around the future possibilities of dairy farming. It was tested at a local farmers’ market to investigate its potential. The findings from the event reflect and discuss how The Dairy Oracle was engaged with by shoppers at the farmers’ market, its potential to address the design objectives, and how it could be developed in future research.</p>

scholarly journals The Dairy Oracle: A cultural and design exploration of New Zealand dairy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Lily Nichols
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Dairy Farming ◽  
Site Visit ◽  
Farming Practices ◽  
Farmers Market ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Observational Site ◽  
The Future

<p>The intensification and expansion of New Zealand’s dairy industry have caused animal welfare and environmental sustainability issues to arise. Animal welfare issues directly impact the physical and mental wellbeing of cattle, and environmental sustainability issues contribute to climate change, impact human and animal health and cause biodiversity loss. As the first step to creating a better world for dairy cattle and sustaining the environment for future generations, this research investigates how cultural and design research can be used to understand what New Zealand dairy is today and imagine what it could become in the future. Semi-structured interviews and an observational site visit were conducted with the Happy Cow Milk Company founder and one of their dairy farmers. The interviews and site visit focused on developing an understanding of the participant’s values, their relationships with their cows and the land, and how they address their dairy farming concerns through their farming practices. This cultural research provided insight into what the participants considered the most significant animal welfare and environmental sustainability issues in New Zealand and how these issues could be addressed through alternative dairy farming practices and farmer, cattle, and environmental relationships. The cultural research then inspired the development of the experimental discursive prototype, The Dairy Oracle. This prototype aims to prompt discussion around existing understandings of New Zealand dairy farming and spark imagination around the future possibilities of dairy farming. It was tested at a local farmers’ market to investigate its potential. The findings from the event reflect and discuss how The Dairy Oracle was engaged with by shoppers at the farmers’ market, its potential to address the design objectives, and how it could be developed in future research.</p>

Different animal welfare orientations towards some key research areas of current relevance to pastoral dairy farming in New Zealand

2014 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
JR Webster ◽  
KE Schütz ◽  
MA Sutherland ◽  
M Stewart ◽  
DJ Mellor
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Dairy Farming ◽  
Research Areas

Levy oration - 2015

2016 ◽  
Vol 78 ◽  
pp. 7-10
Author(s):  
C.W. Holmes
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Dairy Farming ◽  
Competitive Edge

New Zealand dairy farming has lost its competitive edge

PASIFIKA FUTURES WHĀNAU ORA: F’INE – Nurturing the Future for Pasifika LGBTQI

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saneta Manoa ◽  
Phylesha Brown-Acton ◽  
Tatryanna Utanga ◽  
Seini Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Poor Mental Health ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
The Future ◽  
Specific Provider

F’INE Aotearoa, through Pasifika Futures Whānau Ora programme, is supporting Pacific Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI) individuals and their families to transform their lives and achieve their aspirations.  The LGBTQI community in New Zealand experience significant disadvantage across a range of areas affecting wellbeing, including higher rates of poor mental health, depression and anxiety 1,2,3. For Pacific LGBTQI, the disadvantages are compounded further.  F’INE, an LGBTQI specific provider in New Zealand, is working to change this.

Knowledge Test Development for Dairy Farmers To Measure Knowledge Level About Scientific Dairy Farming Practices

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (04) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anupama Jena ◽  
Mahesh Chander ◽  
Sushil K. Sinha
Keyword(s):  
Item Analysis ◽  
Dairy Farming ◽  
Discrimination Index ◽  
Test Reliability ◽  
Knowledge Level ◽  
Farming Practices ◽  
Dairy Farmers ◽  
Knowledge Test ◽  
Level Of Significance ◽  
Difficulty Index

In the present study, a test was developed to measure the knowledge level of dairy farmers about scientific dairy farming. A preliminary set of 87 knowledge items was initially administered to 60 randomly selected dairy farmers for item analysis. The difficulty index and discrimination index was found out, and the items with difficulty index ranging from 30 to 80 and the discrimination index ranging from 0.30 to 0.55 were included in the final format of the knowledge test. A total of 48 items which fulfilled both the criteria were selected for the final format of knowledge test. Reliability of the test through split half method was found out to be 0.386 and the coefficient of correlation value by the test-retest method was 0.452, which was found to be significant at 1% level of significance. Hence, the knowledge test constructed was highly stable, reliable and validated for measuring what it intends to.

An Indigenous Māori Perspective of Rangatahi Personhood

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adreanne Ormond ◽  
Joanna Kidman ◽  
Huia Tomlins-Jahnke
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Multiple Realities ◽  
The Future ◽  
Spatial Dimensions ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Colonial Oppression ◽  
Ancestral Landscape

Personhood is complex and characterized by what Avery Gordon describes as an abundant contradictory subjectivity, apportioned by power, race, class, and gender and suspended in temporal and spatial dimensions of the forgotten past, fragmented present, and possible and impossible imagination of the future. Drawing on Gordon’s interpretation, we explore how personhood for young Māori from the nation of Rongomaiwāhine of Aotearoa New Zealand is shaped by a subjectivity informed by a Māori ontological relationality. This discussion is based on research conducted in the Māori community by Māori researchers. They used cultural ontology to engage with the sociohistorical realities of Māori cultural providence and poverty, and colonial oppression and Indigenous resilience. From these complex and multiple realities this essay will explore how young Māori render meaning from their ancestral landscape, community, and the wider world in ways that shape their particular personhood.

scholarly journals Climate Vulnerability and Adaptation Challenges in Szekszárd Wine Region, Hungary

Climate ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Attila Buzási
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Evaluation Methodology ◽  
Intrinsic Factors ◽  
Vulnerability Assessments ◽  
The Future ◽  
Climate Vulnerability ◽  
High Level ◽  
Wine Region ◽  
Lock In

Wine producers face several challenges regarding climate change, which will affect this industry both in the present and the future. Vulnerability assessments are at the forefront of current climate research, therefore, the present paper has two main aims. First, to assess two components of climate vulnerability regarding the Szekszárd wine region, Hungary; second, to collect and analyze adaptation farming techniques in terms of environmental sustainability aspects. Exposure analyses revealed that the study area will face several challenges regarding intensive drought periods in the future. Sensitivity indicators show the climate-related characteristics of the most popular grapevines and their relatively high level of susceptibility regarding changing climatic patterns. Since both external and intrinsic factors of vulnerability show deteriorating trends, the development of adaptation actions is needed. Adaptation interventions often provide unsustainable solutions or entail maladaptation issues, therefore, an environmental-focused sustainability assessment of collected interventions was performed to avoid long-term negative path dependencies. The applied evaluation methodology pointed out that nature-based adaptation actions are preferred in comparison to using additional machines or resource-intensive solutions. This study can fill the scientific gap by analyzing this wine region for the first time, via performing an ex-ante lock-in analysis of available and widely used adaptation interventions in the viticulture sector.

Consumer interactions and influences on farmers' market vendors

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan R. Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Farmers Markets ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Farmers Market ◽  
Local Agriculture ◽  
Customer Interaction ◽  
Chemical Inputs ◽  
Consumer Interactions ◽  
Direct Market

AbstractConsumers interact with each other and vendors on a social level at farmers' markets. Some consumer social interactions, such as enjoying the market, talking with farmers about seasonal products and making a trip to the market a family event, are significant and positive influences on spending at farmers' markets as identified through a survey of 216 shoppers at eight farmers' markets in Maine. Vendors at these markets were also surveyed, with 65 of the 81 vendors being farmers. Through direct farmer/consumer relations, farmers indicated a willingness to reduce chemical inputs to meet customer demands, suggesting that customer interaction has the potential to affect environmental quality. By examining the linkages between producers and consumers at a direct market—often embedded with a sense of local identity—there is the potential to better understand social interactions that can support the economic and environmental sustainability of local agriculture.

Profit margin hedging in the New Zealand dairy farming industry

2021 ◽  
pp. 100197
Author(s):  
Adrian Fernandez-Perez ◽  
Bart Frijns ◽  
Ilnara Gafiatullina ◽  
Alireza Tourani-Rad
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Dairy Farming ◽  
Profit Margin ◽  
Farming Industry
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