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Organic Case Study

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Case Study Leader:
Dr Charles "Merf' Merfield.
Co-ordination:
Dr Sonja Olykan

The NZSD Project explored implementation of sustainability assessment and reporting in the Organic Dairy and Organic Wine sectors.

Dairy organic case study

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August 2015
Poster on the implementation of the Dairy organic case study prepared for Stakeholder Workshop - 6 August 2015.

Wine organic case study

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July 2015
Charles Merfield has presented the New Zealand Sustainability Dashboard project, as well as a presentation on Nitrogen, to the Organic Winegrowers New Zealand annual conference (Organic Biodynamic and Winegrowing conference) in Marlborough - 8-10 July 2015.


Related information

August 2015
BioGro has published an article "New Industry Tool to Measure Sustainability" about the NZSD project and the organic case study.
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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.

June 2015
Congratulations to Charles Merfield, Henrik Moller and the whole team - their paper "Are Organic Standards Sufficient to Ensure Sustainable Agriculture? Lessons From New Zealand’s ARGOS and Sustainability Dashboard Projects" has just been published in Sustainable Agriculture Research, Vol. 4, No. 3,  2015 (Special Issue) - and is available here.
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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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