- Impacts & Adaptation
Research Programme
- Anita Wreford
Lincoln University - View the full team
Project Lead
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Budget
$745,000 -
Duration
October 2020-March 2024
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Completed project
Primary sector preparedness for climate change
Rapid and slow-onset climate changes to the primary sector: evaluating the role and cost of adaptation on resilience
Climate change presents unprecedented challenges to our primary sector. Yet significant gaps exist in our understanding of its impacts on agriculture, the costs of these impacts, and the most effective and equitable ways to adapt.
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Through a suite of approaches incorporating physical science, agricultural productivity models, economic approaches and social science, this project intended to fill some of these gaps.
The research informed the National Adaptation Plan, following from the National Climate Change Risk Assessment, and was intended to support government agencies and sector bodies to provide adaptation guidance through He Waka Eke Noa, the Primary Sector Climate Change Commitment.
Detailed modelling and analysis focused on dairy, due to its current economic dominance, but the research is transferable to other sectors, and users of these findings should find they are of immediate use across the agricultural sector.
The research represents an important link with the Resilience Challenge, and complements other research across the SLMACC programme, wider National Science Challenges, and Endeavour programmes.
Read a plain-language summary of this project here.
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PROJECT TEAM
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Anita Wreford
Lincoln University -
Thomas Wilson
University of Canterbury -
Christian Zammit
NIWA -
Ryan Paulik
NIWA -
Heather Craig
NIWA -
Nicholas Cradock-Henry
Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research -
Christina Griffin
GHC Consulting -
Alan Renwick
Lincoln University -
John Saunders
Lincoln University -
Ruth Dittrich
University of Portland -
David Chapman
DairyNZ -
Graeme Doole
DairyNZ -
Pierre Beukes
DairyNZ -
Alvaro Romero
DairyNZ