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Conference Papers, Seminars, Workshops, Posters or Abstracts

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July 2016
NZSD team members were involved in two workshops at IFSA 2016 Symposium - Harper Adams University (UK) (International Farming Systems Association) - 12-15 July 2016:
  • Workshop 2.2 - Sustainability assessment at farm level for catalysing practical change, co-led by Dr Marion Sautier (NZSD, INRA) and Dr Andreas Roesch (Agroscope).
  • Workshop 2.4 - Temperate agriculture sustainability assessment beyond the individual farm level, co-led by Prof (Emeritus) Henrik Moller (NZSD) and Dr Jan Grenz (HALF).
The following papers were accepted from our own team:
  • Choice modelling for selecting and building sustainability indicators in workshop 2.2 (Henrik Moller).
  • Target Setting and Burden Sharing in Sustainability Assessment Beyond the Farm Level in workshop 2.4 (Jay Whitehead). Download here.
  • Implementation of sustainability assessment and reporting in horticulture: a case study of New Zealand’s wine and kiwifruit sectors in workshop 2.4 (Andrew Barber and Jayson Benge). Download here.
  • Transformations of conventional production systems beyond the audit: guideline-based sustainability programs and their radical potential in workshop 3.4 - Boundary spanning between agroecological and conventional production systems: implications for pathways towards more sustainable production (Marion Sautier)

May 2016
Marion Sautier has been accepted to present a paper at The Worlds in a Wine Glass Conference – London (UK). 9-10 May 2016.
December 2015
6-9 December 2015, Queenstown. Agrifood XXII Conference. 
There was a strong presence of Dashboard researchers at this conference:
- John Reid and Tremane Barr presented two papers on the relationship between indigeneity, food and sustainability and generated significant discussion about the innovative technologies and pathways being designed by the Dashboard project.
- A group of Dashboard researchers (Marion Sautier, Katharine Legun, Chris Rosin, Hugh Campbell) presented in sessions that discussed the social dynamics of how alternative systems develop.
​While the Agrifood group have heard many analyses by researchers in our various projects on the kiwifruit, apples, aquaculture, sheep, beef and dairy industries, what became clear at this conference was that the Dashboard is generating substantial new knowledge and developing a reputation for expertise in the social dynamics of New Zealand’s wine industry. 
December 2015
8-10 December 2015, Sydney, Australia. Eco-Stats conference (Technological advances between Ecology and Statistics). Peter Green, following his presentation at SEEM 2015, he has been invited to run a workshop and give a talk. 
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November 2015
24-26 November 2015. Christchurch. NZAS (NZ Statistical Association and Operations Research Society of NZ).
Peter Green has presented the power analysis package (Power analysis for GLMMs by simulation).

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November 2015
16-19 November 2015, Christchurch. NZES 2015 (New Zealand Ecological Society conference). Catriona MacLeod has presented "Refining monitoring and reporting in production landscapes and beyond" introducing the power analysis package with an example from the kiwifruit sector.
She gave as well another presentation "Building trustworthy biodiversity indicators" for another project which has linkages with NZSD.

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November 2015
1-4 November 2015, Barcelona, Spain. Global Cleaner Production and Sustainable Consumption Conference.
Marion Sautier has presented the paper “Transformations of winegrowing systems beyond the audit: guideline-based sustainability programs and their radical potential” by Marion Sautier, Katharine Legun and Hugh Campbell. The conference was organised by the ‘Journal of Cleaner Production’.

September 2015
21-24 September 2015, Vienna, Austria. LUWQ2015 conference (Land Use and Water Quality). Charles ‘Merf’ Merfield is presenting “The New Zealand Sustainability Dashboard: Online sustainability assessment and reporting tools to achieve quality water outcomes in a low regulation political environment.” from Charles Merfield, Marion Sautier, and Katharine Legun.
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September 2015
Courteney Sealey presented a paper called “Reconciliation of values” at the World Forest Congress in Durban. South Africa (7-11 September 2015). Further she will be providing a presentation concerning Māori forestry to accompany a Ministerial address at the New Zealand consulate in South Africa. 
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June 2015
Peter Green has presented the power analysis package (Power analysis for GLMMs by simulation) to the SEEM 2015 (Statistics in Ecology and Environmental Monitoring conference) in Queenstown -22-26 June 2015. 
He has been invited to run a workshop and give a talk at the Eco-Stats conference (Technological advances between Ecology and Statistics) in Australia in December 2015.

June 2015
Dr John Reid has provided a presentation entitled "Building Tribal Enterprises Based on Traditional Worldviews and Values: Can they compete in global capitalist markets?” as part of the session “(Re)constructing Indigeneity and Tackling Markets in Aotearoa/New Zealand” at the Native American and Indigenous Scholars Association Conference. 4-6 June 2015, Washington DC, USA. This is the largest indigenous scholars’ conference in the world with over 1000 attendees.
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2-3 November 2014
Dr John Reid has provided a presentation at the 5th ICMNS (International Conference on Mathematics and Natural Sciences), Bandung, Indonesia. 
The title of his presentation was: "Insights from Cross-Cultural and Transdisciplinary Research in Sustainable Food and Fibre Production".

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1-2 November 2014
Professor Henrik Moller has presented a paper at the OECD ICROFS conference -  1-2 November 2014, California, USA. 

Conference name: Innovations in Organic Food Systems for Sustainable Production and Enhanced Ecosystem Services (organised by the International Centre for Research in Organic Systems).
Subject of Henrik's presentation - co-authored with Jon Manhire and Dr Charles Merfield:  “Are organic farm input restrictions sufficient to secure ecosystem services? Lessons from New Zealand’s ARGOS and Sustainability Dashboard project”.
All the PowerPoints from the workshop papers will soon be available on the ICROFS site. Formal publication will follow in the Journal Sustainable Agriculture Research (SAR).

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5-11 October 2014
Dr Tim Payn has presented a few topics at the  IUFRO World Congress 2014 (Forest Science) – Salt Lake City, USA, 5-11 October 2014 ("Sustaining Forests, Sustaining People: The Role of Research“). Among them, he presented the presentation entitled "Using A Criteria And Indicators Framework To Explore Future Impacts Of Planted Forests On New Zealand’s Economy, Environment, And Society".

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August 2014
Jayson Benge and Andrew Barber have presented papers at IHC - 29th International Horticultural Congress, 17-22 August 2014, Brisbane, Australia. 

18th August - The New Zealand Sustainability Dashboard: Connecting Growers, Industry, Consumers, Regulators and Policy Makers to Drive Sustainable Horticulture - Jon Manhire, Lesley Hunt, Isabelle Le Quellec, Henrik Moller, Andrew Barber, Jayson Benge*, Catriona MacLeod, Katherine McCusker, Christopher Rosin.

22nd August - Benchmarking Energy and Water Efficiency in New Zealand Wine Production: Eco-Verification and Incentivising Improvement Using the New Zealand Sustainability Dashboard - Andrew Barber*, Vicent Gasso-Tortajada, Henrik Moller, Jon Manhire, Frank Oudshoorn, Claus Sørensen

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April 2014
11th European IFSA (International Farming System Association) Symposium, “Farming systems facing global challenges: Capacities and strategies
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, 1st to 4th April 2014, Berlin, Germany. 

Lesley Hunt was a speaker at the 1.4 Workshop (The development of more entrepreneurial farming systems and the move towards a more farm-level approach to innovation and learning).
Book of Abstract available here.
Full Paper available here.


Publication: Doing the unthinkable: Linking farmers' breadth of view and adaptive propensity to the achievement of social, environmental and economic outcomes. Farming systems facing global challenges: Capacities and Strategies 11th European IFSA Symposium, 1-4 April 2014 Humbolt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Pp. 412- 419.

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February 2014
Professor Henrik Moller at 
United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan - Invited participant in : “International Workshop Resilient Asia: Fusion Of Traditional And Modern Systems  For Sustainable  Future”. 14 February, 2014.

Professor Henrik Moller at the International Workshop on Sustainable Management of Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes in Noto, Japan, 10-11 February 2014. Full report (and full report presentation slides) available here.
1)      Invited speaker at the expert workshop: “Design of Indicators for Co-management of Production Landscapes: Joining Science, Traditional and Local Knowledge, Policy Expertise and Consumers for Sustainability”. 10 February, 2014.
2)      Keynote speaker at the workshop public Forum: “Indicators for Co-management of Production Landscapes: Joining science, Traditional and Local Knowledge, policy expertise and consumers for sustainability”. 11 February, 2014.

2013
Dr Lesley Hunt at AgriFood, Melbourne, Australia - Australasian Agrifood Research Network XX: Resistance, Resilience and Security
Paper :Carrying on farming: How New Zealand’s sheep/beef farmers continue to farm

Professor Hugh Campbell at AgriFood, Melbourne, Australia - Australasian Agrifood Research Network XX: Resistance, Resilience and Security
Paper :The Cultural Visibility of Food Waste: A Re-Examination of ‘Waste
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Professor Caroline Saunders at the True-Cost Accounting in Food & Farming conference in London - 4th to 6th of December 2013
Caroline was invited to the True-Cost Accounting in Food and Farming - a two day meeting of foundations, researchers, NGOs and policymakers followed by one day public conference. The meeting was held at Church House Conference Centre, Dean’s Yard, Westminster, London from 4 - 5 December. Caroline presented a paper titled ‘Valuing Biodiversity in Agro-Ecosystems’ at the Integrating Biodiversity and Food Production session on Wednesday 4 December. The conference was organised by the Sustainable Food Trust. HRH the Prince of Wales hosted a lunch reception on Thursday 5 December. Caroline's presentation is available here: http://sustainablefoodtrust.org/articles/true-cost-accounting-in-food-and-farming-2/
Day 1 / Workshop session – Integrating Biodiversity and Food Production at 45:10'
For more information on the public conference: http://tcaconf2013.org

Peter Green, showcasing a tool for improving monitoring designs at the NZSA+ORSNZ conference.
The prototype tool, under development at Landcare Research, uses a simple but robust process for identifying cost-effective monitoring designs. Peter Green presented a poster at the NZ Statistical Association conference in November 2013 to highlight some of the features of the analytical package, simr, for use in R (a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics). For more information on the Joint Conference of the NZ Statistical Association and Operations Research Society of NZ, 24-27 November 2013, Hamilton, New Zealand, check here.
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Marisia Silva Brazil and Chris Rosin - Conference Cordoba - paper with Chris Rosin (p234 in the full proceedings report) - Article in Spanish - Abstract available in english. ANÁLISIS ENERGÉTICOS EN AGROECOSISTEMA LECHERO EN BRASIL Y NUEVA ZELANDIA: IMPORTANTE HERRAMIENTA PARA UNA PRODUCCIÓN MÁS SUSTENTABLE. iii Congreso Internactional des Ambiente y Energias Renovables, Villa Maria, Cordoa, Argentina, 11-15 nov 2013

Professor Caroline Saunders - paper titled ‘Consumer preferences and WTP for food attributes in the UK, China and India’. Smart, Sustainable and inclusive: Researching the EU from Australia and New Zealand EU Conference at Australian National University in Canberra from 9-11 September 2013. 
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Dr Lesley Hunt - Hunt, Lesley.  (2013).  Turning farms into businesses: Some unexpected consequences of neoliberalism for New Zealand farmers.  New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (NZARES) Annual Conference: On-farm impacts of environmental policy.  28-30 August 2013, Lincoln University, N.Z. 

John Saunders - Consumer attitudes towards and willingness to pay for NZ food attributes in the UK, China and India and the impact on NZ producer returns. New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (NZARES) Annual Conference: On-farm impacts of environmental policy.  28-30 August 2013, Lincoln University, N.Z. 

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Australasia Pacific Extension Network (APEN) International Conference: Transformative change - chosen or unchosen: Pathways to innovation, resilience and prosperity.  26-28 August 2013, Christchurch, N.Z. 

Professor Caroline Saunders gave an invited keynote address titled ‘Transformative change and agricultural innovation in New Zealand’. 
 Dr Lesley Hunt - Hunt, L., Rosin, C., Campbell, H. and Fairweather, J.  (2013).  Changing what it means to be a ‘good farmer’: A study from ARGOS of the impact of neoliberalism on New Zealand farmers.  

Dr Catriona MacLeod -Tompkins D, MacLeod C, Moller H 2013. Agri-environmental indicator development for the New Zealand Sustainability dashboard. Book of Abstracts. NETS 2013 Conference, 31 July - 2 August 2013, Shantytown, New Zealand.
Professor Henrik Moller - Participation in IPBES (Inter-government Platform for Biodiversity & Ecosystems Services) expert workshop to find ways to better integrate Local and Indigenous Knowledge into the IPBES work programme. Short presentation to emphasise the value of getting practitioners’ knowledge (farmers, fishers, hunters) included alongside Traditional Ecological Knowledge and science. Information and Workshop Report. 9 to 11 June 2013. Tokyo, Japan.
Professor Caroline Saunders - Saunders, C., Guenther, M., Tait, P., Saunders, J. (2013). Assessing consumer preferences and willingness to pay for NZ food attributes in China, India and the UK. Proceedings of the 87th Annual Conference of the Agricultural Economics Society, University of Warwick, United Kingdom, 8-10 April 2013. Banbury, UK: Agricultural Economics Society.
A seminar by Professor Henrik Moller. “Partnership of academics and practitioners for more resilient social-ecological systems: experiences from New Zealand”. Abstract. University of Bern, Department of Integrative Biology. Tuesday 26th March 2013. 
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Professor Henrik Moller, Professor Caroline Saunders and Dr John Reid - Participation to the FAO/SAFA workshop in Rome. Final report of the workshop available on FAO website or here. 18 and 19th March 2013.

Gasso Tortajada V., Barber, A., Moller H., Manhire J., Oudshoorn FW.  Poster SAFA Energy (Measuring Energy Sustainability in Global and Local Agricultural Systems: Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand assessed by the SAFA framework) and Abstract. The Energy conference, February 2013.
Dr Catriona MacLeod - Gormley AM, MacLeod CJ, Greene T. Recent application of multi-species analysis of bird communities: (1) Assessing kiwifruit orchard management and (2) biodiversity monitoring on public conservation land. New Zealand Ecological Society Conference 2012. Lincoln, 26-28 November 2012.

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