scholarly journals Consumers, farmers and the future of New Zealand hill country farming

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 95-99
Author(s):  
A.K. Mcdermott ◽  
F.G. Scrimgeour
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Hill Country ◽  
Average Consumer ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Good For ◽  
Farm System ◽  
Domestic Values

The future of hill country farmers depends on constructive engagements with international consumers and domestic values and politics. Antifragility, being at worst unharmed by or benefiting from stresses or shocks, involves both reducing system downside and maximising the upside potential. Antifragility is enhanced by farmers selecting partners with which they align in transparent relationships. Farmers should consider integration or collaboration rather than selfsufficiency. Maintaining an element of flexibility within the farm system is also essential. In addressing the market it is not appropriate to focus on the average consumer. New Zealand producers should target those who care about what is good for them with what is good for the world and good quality; listen to them and deliver what they want. Delivering on what is wanted requires farmers to "farm like they are watching you". They are. Farmers and companies need to be able to verify what they claim and celebrate an honest story. Keywords: antifragility, consumers, flexibility, honesty, quality, transparency Key messages • Establish aligned, transparent partnerships

scholarly journals Developing a Landscape Design Approach for the Sustainable Land Management of Hill Country Farms in New Zealand

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 185
Author(s):  
Duy Tran ◽  
Diane Pearson ◽  
Alan Palmer ◽  
David Gray
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Landscape Design ◽  
Sustainable Land Management ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Hill Country ◽  
Landscape Modification ◽  
Farm Systems ◽  
The Face ◽  
Farm System ◽  
Future Landscape

Landscape modification associated with agricultural intensification has brought considerable challenges for the sustainable development of New Zealand hill country farms. Addressing these challenges requires an appropriate approach to support farmers and design a better landscape that can have beneficial environmental outcomes whilst ensuring continued profitability. In this paper we suggest using geodesign and theories drawn from landscape ecology to plan and design multifunctional landscapes that offer improved sustainability for hill country farm systems and landscapes in New Zealand. This approach suggests that better decisions can be made by considering the major landscape services that are, and could be, provided by the landscapes in which these farm systems are situated. These important services should be included in future landscape design of hill country by creating a patterning and configuration of landscape features that actively maintains or restores important landscape functioning. This will help to improve landscape health and promote landscape resilience in the face of climate change. Through illustrating the potential of this type of approach for wider adoption we believe that the proposed conceptual framework offers a valuable reference for sustainable farm system design that can make an important contribution to advancing environmental management globally as well as in New Zealand.

scholarly journals Whāia te mātauranga - How are research libraries in Aotearoa New Zealand applying Ngā Ūpoko Tukutuku / the Māori Subject Headings and offering them to users?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Melissa Bryant
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Library Users ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Subject Headings ◽  
Further Development

<p>Ngā Ūpoko Tukutuku/the Māori Subject Headings (MSH) were released in 2006, with the aim of “provid[ing] a structured path to subjects that Māori customers can…use to find material in libraries…using terms familiar to Māori and arranged in a hierarchy that reflects the Māori view of the world”. The project is a world leader and internationally well-regarded, but very little literature has been published evaluating the uptake and use of the MSH.  I talked with staff in wānanga, university, public, and special libraries, to explore how research libraries are applying the MSH and offering the MSH to their users, when adding metadata, providing reference and research services, or supporting library users to search independently.  Libraries employed diverse approaches tailored to their specific users, but participants consistently emphasised the importance of the MSH, advocated for further development of the thesaurus, and hoped for more training and information sharing between libraries.  Results are discussed in terms of four questions - What is working well? What could work better? What are the benefits of this work? What further questions do we need to answer?  Suggestions for further research include broader assessment of the actual and potential uptake of the MSH in libraries and other memory institutions, discussion with library users, and consideration of the future development of the MSH.</p>

scholarly journals Whāia te mātauranga - How are research libraries in Aotearoa New Zealand applying Ngā Ūpoko Tukutuku / the Māori Subject Headings and offering them to users?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Melissa Bryant
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Library Users ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Subject Headings ◽  
Further Development

<p>Ngā Ūpoko Tukutuku/the Māori Subject Headings (MSH) were released in 2006, with the aim of “provid[ing] a structured path to subjects that Māori customers can…use to find material in libraries…using terms familiar to Māori and arranged in a hierarchy that reflects the Māori view of the world”. The project is a world leader and internationally well-regarded, but very little literature has been published evaluating the uptake and use of the MSH.  I talked with staff in wānanga, university, public, and special libraries, to explore how research libraries are applying the MSH and offering the MSH to their users, when adding metadata, providing reference and research services, or supporting library users to search independently.  Libraries employed diverse approaches tailored to their specific users, but participants consistently emphasised the importance of the MSH, advocated for further development of the thesaurus, and hoped for more training and information sharing between libraries.  Results are discussed in terms of four questions - What is working well? What could work better? What are the benefits of this work? What further questions do we need to answer?  Suggestions for further research include broader assessment of the actual and potential uptake of the MSH in libraries and other memory institutions, discussion with library users, and consideration of the future development of the MSH.</p>

How Architects and Designers are Building the Future!

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adil Afsar ◽  
Adil Afsar
Keyword(s):  
World Today ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Rapid Pace ◽  
Good For

The world today is evolving at a very rapid pace. The needs today won't be the needs of tomorrow. This shift of the needs and longing of humans to experience something beyond exceptional is not momentary. This shift is continuous and humans are pushing their limits to experience something which they haven't before. In order to quench that thirst, the products which satisfy their desires don't last long and that's why the products today are short lived and are not sustainable. This is very good for the economy in order to keep the cycle running espousing consumerism as well. This is giving a tough challenge to designers and architects of today to create something sustainable which can keep the people engaged for a long time. Thus, the designers and Architects are in the middle of this issue. Where they don't know whether they shall create something which is sustainable or something which is short lived and increases the desire of the consumer to look for what next.

In conversation with Stallone Vaiaoga-Ioasa

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-242
Author(s):  
Stallone Vaiaoga-Ioasa ◽  
Sarina Pearson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Geographically Dispersed ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

Becoming a feature film director is a privilege available to only a handful of people, no matter where in the world they live. In Oceania, access to filmmaking is arguably more constrained because the market conditions under which commercial films are produced do not favour small, geographically dispersed and linguistically distinct communities. Opportunities to make publicly funded, critically acclaimed Pacific films in metropolitan centres like Aotearoa New Zealand are vanishingly small. Often when they are made, these ‘art house’ Pacific films primarily appeal to audiences outside of the communities in which they are set. Stallone Vaiaoga-Ioasa has challenged this status quo by pioneering a mode of populist commercial filmmaking for Samoan (and other Pacific Island) audiences in the islands and across the diaspora. His commitment to making entertainment that is relevant to and reflects contemporary Samoan culture has been remarkable. On the eve of Vaiaoga-Ioasa’s fourth feature film release, filmmaker/academic Sarina Pearson sat down with him to talk about how he developed the ‘Stallone model’, the films he has made, and his plans for the future.

scholarly journals The place of forestry in agriculture

1993 ◽  
pp. 183-186
Author(s):  
Andrew Pottinger
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Hill Country ◽  
The World ◽  
Area 6 ◽  
World Demand ◽  
The Right ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Better Than

Many New Zealand pastoral farmers have experienced severe financial hardship due to lowerthan- adequate product prices and adverse climatic conditions in recent years. It is perhaps now appropriate to look at alternative land use for a proportion of their farm.Wood is a product which the world is desperately short of, and New Zealand can grow wood better than virtually anywhere else in the world. When we look at world demand for wood, both now and in the near future, we see that plantings are not keeping up with expected demands. The world would need an area 6 times that of New Zealand (i.e. 160 million ha) to satisfy the demand. At present, we only harvest 1.6% of the world's total harvest. In New Zealand the trend is in the right direction, with production predicted to reach 25 million cubic metres by 2015 (2.5 times present production). This will require 9.4% of the land area of New Zealand, but will produce $16 billion, more than wool, meat and dairy together. Agroforestry gives farmers the opportunity to spread their risk beyond traditional agricultural products, and also participate in this growing industry of forestry. The question should not be whether trees are planted on some of our own farm land, but who will do it. Farmers have been slow to convert, but economics will prevail. Keywords: agroforesty, economics, hill country, marginal hill country

The future of geotourism where to from here

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Newsome ◽  
Ross K. Dowling
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Geological Heritage ◽  
Community Groups ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

Geotourism is on the rise the world over. Governments, tourism businesses, geological organizations, community groups, conservationists, NGOs, and individuals are seeking a future for the protection of our geological heritage and community advancement through sustainable tourism development. Countries as far apart as New Zealand and Iceland, USA and China, are getting involved and lifting our knowledge on geology and landscape, through interpretation and education. The future is exciting for geotourism as evidenced by the increased interest in geological awareness, the phenomenal rise of the Geopark Movement, and the rising interest in geotourism as a tool for conservation of our geoheritage.

scholarly journals Listening to Voices of the Future

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Coleman ◽  
Girol Karacaoglu
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Valuable Contribution ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

The six articles that follow are contributions from eight people born after 1985. They represent a response to the invitation we published in the August 2019 issue of Policy Quarterly (Coleman and Karacaoglu, 2019). We hope that what follows is a valuable contribution to various intergenerational conversations that are taking place in New Zealand and around the world.

scholarly journals Are the World-Leading Primary Silver Mines Exhausting?

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 2619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcello Ruberti ◽  
Stefania Massari
Keyword(s):  
Silver Content ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Financial Investments ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Silver Mining ◽  
Ore Grades ◽  
Good For

Silver is one of the rarest metals in nature and certainly among the most used ones, not only as precious good for financial investments but also for many industrial critical applications. Because it would be very difficult to analyze the situation regarding the future global availability of silver as a commodity in general, due to the necessity of a large amount of data which are hardly available, we have focused only on the mining production of primary silver. In particular, the study regards the activities of a sample consisting of twelve of the world top fifteen leading primary silver mines, which represent the 54% of the worldwide primary silver production and 16% of the global silver mining production. We have investigated the related exploitation state and trends of these twelve sites by elaborating their last ten-years statistics on silver production, ore grades, resources and reserves. The findings of this study, in short, are that the cumulative average silver ore grades, both in extracted mineral, resources and reserves, of the above selected mines, have decreased and also that the new mining fields (Dukat, San Bartolomé, Pirquitas, Saucito) have lower silver content indexes than the older ones.

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