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Westpac Agribusiness Climate Change Report
In partnership with Westpac New Zealand, the AERU (lead author Professor Anita Wreford) produced research assessing the risks and opportunities presented by climate change to New Zealand agribusiness, as well as the sector's vulnerabilities and potential responses.
Unlocking Export Prosperity
Unlocking Export Prosperity is delivering new knowledge on how local enterprises can achieve higher returns by ensuring global consumers understand the distinctive qualities of the physical, credence and cultural attributes of agri-food products that are Made in New Zealand.
Rewarding Sustainable Practices
Following on from the successful Integrating Value Chains programme, this research is testing whether the key characteristics identified in that programme as important for a successful value chain have validity for designing a new value chain for a New Zealand land-based export product.
Integrating Value Chains
Integrating Value Chains tested whether New Zealand’s world-renowned reputation for food and fibre would allow our producers and processors to capture higher returns for agri-food exports.
Maximising Export Returns (MER)
Maximising Export Returns (MER) was a three-year project, funded by MBIE, examining international consumer preferences towards key food and beverage product attributes in key markets for New Zealand's food and beverage trade.
Primary Sector Council Report
The Primary Sector Council commissioned the AERU to prepare a situational analysis that provided a global perspective and a national context for developing a refreshed vision for food and fibre sector at a time of unprecedented change.
Canterbury Food and Fibre Sector
In relation to the Canterbury Regional Economic Development Strategy, the AERU has prepared a report on the state of the Food and Fibre sector of New Zealand that identified key factors that characterise successful value chains.
The Land & The Brand
This project documented how important the land based sector is to New Zealand and offered a vision for its future. AGMARDT, ANZCO Foods, Beef and Lamb New Zealand, Fonterra and Zespri funded the research in 2016. It showed how industry‐led initiatives and private‐public partnerships is building on the sector’s historical successes for ongoing economic prosperity into the future.
Taste Pure Nature
The AERU has contributed to Beef+Lamb’s New Zealand origin brand, Taste Pure Nature, through our work in the Integrating Value Chains programme (funded by the Our Land and Water National Science Challenge).