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Ongoing ProjectsSustainable Productivity Outcomes for New Zealand's Pastoral Industries This project explores quantitative approaches to aid policy development and to achieve environmental outcomes in NZ's pastoral sector, using improved GTAP modeling methodologies.A focus will be on land use planning and projections of environmental indicators/ Funding support from Public Good Science Fund Staff: Professor Allan Rae, Dr Sue Cassells, Professor Anton Meister and Dr Anna Strutt (University of Waikato).
The Doha WTO Agricultural Negotiations: Reform options and outcomes for New Zealand From
existing proposals for reform submitted under the current Doha Round,
alternative possible negotiated outcomes would be constructed, covering
the reductions in tariffs, export subsidies and domestic support,
along with changes to tariff-rate-quotas. Predicted outcomes will
be quantified in terms of how their implementation would impact
on global and national prices, trade flows, national economic benefits,
and in particular on New Zealand rural society. This will be done
using the applied general equilibrium model developed by the Global
Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) at Purdue University, USA. Funding support from C Alma Baker Trust Staff: Professor Allan Rae and Anna Strutt (University of Waikato)
Productivity Measures in NZ Agriculture This project assists the MAF to review and uopdate its methodology to measuring sectoral TFP. Several alternative measures are applied, including individual farm panel data. Funding support from Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Staff: Prof. Allan Rae, Dr Krishna Iyer.
Total Factor Productivity Growth Determinants This project aims to increase understanding of the major drivers of productivity growth in NZ agriculture. A major component will be further assesment of the role of domestic and foreign R&D. Funding support from Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Staff: Prof. Allan Rae, Dr Krishna Iyer and Dr J-J Su.
China's Agriculture and Implications for New Zealand. This is a wide-ranging and ongoing project, but with an overall theme of China's livestock development and its implications for global markets. It is conduct with collaboration with a number of Chinese researchers. Research so far has included livestock productivity developments in China, the influence of livestock production on rural household incomes, and a survey analysis of the dairy farming situation in inner Mongolia. Funding support from Venture Trust and Public Good Science Fund Staff: Professor Allan Rae, Dr Xiaohui Zhang, Professor Hengyun Ma, Professor Zhengbing Wang, Professor Xiaohe Liu and Mr Hongye You.
Agricultural Trade and the Environment An objective of this research is to determine the impact of reduced farm protection (as a result of WTO Agreements) on the environment in comparison with the environmental damage that might arise in the absence of such reforms. The impacts on agricultural trade of specific environmental policies that target pollution are also being examined. The focus is on livestock farming, due to its importance to the New Zealand economy and trade, and because it was seen as an important contributor to environmental damage in some of New Zealand’s important trading partners and competitor nations. Livestock farming produces substantial quantities of manure waste rich in nitrogen and other elements. Where accessible cropland is insufficient to assimilate these nutrients, environmental damage can result. Projections of trade impacts are made, employing the GTAP model modified to recognise production intensification, in conjunction with an environmental side-model. Funding support from Public Good Science Fund Staff: Professor Allan Rae and Professor Anton Meister and Anna Strutt (University of Waikato)
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