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A growing problem: exploring livestock farm resilience to droughts in unit record data
Climate models indicate that New Zealand’s farms will be increasingly exposed to adverse climate events in the future. In this study, the authors empirically investigate drought impacts on farm enterprises by linking financial, agricultural and productivity data from Statistics New Zealand’s Longitudinal Business Database (LBD)...
Working paper
Land-use modelling in New Zealand: current practice and future needs
The drivers of land-use decisions are complex, and models provide a structured methodology for investigating these. For the public and private sectors to make robust land-use decisions under uncertainty, high-quality modelling tools and data are essential.
Working paper
Modelling the potential impact of New Zealand’s freshwater reforms on land-based Greenhouse Gas emissions
This report is the first national assessment of the indirect impacts of the NPS-FM on New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs).
Working paper
Yield to change: modelling the land-use response to climate-driven changes in pasture production
In contrast to most economic drivers of land-use change, climate-related drivers display substantial geographic variation. Accounting for this spatial heterogeneity is important in simulations of the land-use response to climate change. I use a discrete choice model to estimate the relationship between pasture yields and...
Working paper
Does money grow on trees? Mitigation under climate policy in a heterogeneous sheep-beef sector
Summary haiku Ruminating on Methane. Land use will change and Someone’s gotta pay. Abstract I use simulations from the Land Use in Rural New Zealand model to consider mitigation for different classes of sheep-beef farms under climate policy. Farmers in the model can respond to...