The New Zealand Sustainability Dashboard project is built on a core of existing capability and knowledge of the Agriculture Research Group On Sustainability (ARGOS) researchers, supplemented by additional specialist researchers and their international networks to build strong collaborations (Research team members).
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The New Zealand Sustainability Dashboard project is a 6 years research programme started in October 2012 and funded by Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment - Science + Innovation - Part of the 2012 biological Industries Science Investment Fund (More details).
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Presentation of the New Zealand Sustainability Dashboard project
The New Zealand Sustainability Dashboard project is a 6 years research programme started in October 2012 and funded by MBIE and the Industries. It is built on a core of existing capability and knowledge of the Agriculture Research Group On Sustainability (ARGOS) researchers, supplemented by additional specialist researchers and their international networks to build strong collaborations.
More information on this programme available in Research Report 13/01 or in Research Summary RS13/01.
The Research partners are Lincoln University (AERU), University of Otago (CSAFE), The Agribusiness Group, Landcare Research, Scion, Ngai Tahu, 1000Minds, Ecosystem consultants and Lincoln Agritech.
Industry partners include New Zealand Winegrowers, Zespri International and other Kiwifruit partners, Forestry organisations, Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu and BioGro New Zealand.
The main project objective is to develop – with these partners - on-line user-friendly tools to facilitate sustainability assessment and reporting to meet market and regulatory demands. These web-based tools will facilitate uploading of regular monitoring results and instantly summarise and report back trends to the producers, to industry representatives, and to agriculture regulators and policy makers at regional and national government levels. It could as well provide information to enhance management decision making for businesses and assist in enhancing their overall sustainability performance and to provide regular feedback to producers for learning.
Internationally recognised frameworks and their key generic sustainability performance indicators (KPIs) will be co-opted to ensure that overseas consumers can benchmark and verify the sustainability credentials of New Zealand exported products.
The Sustainability Dashboard is primarily being developed to assist producers with the rational management of the large amounts of information available and to assist them with their subsequent management decisions. It will also help them comply with the ever increasing demands for market and regulatory reporting. It is anticipated that the use of the tool and enhanced information flows resulting from it will assist producers optimise their overall farm performance including productivity/profitability while protecting environmental and social values. It will reduce monitoring and regulatory costs, build consumer trust, secure market access and garner support from wider New Zealand society by verification and regular reporting of standardised sustainability criteria.
More information on this programme available in Research Report 13/01 or in Research Summary RS13/01.
The Research partners are Lincoln University (AERU), University of Otago (CSAFE), The Agribusiness Group, Landcare Research, Scion, Ngai Tahu, 1000Minds, Ecosystem consultants and Lincoln Agritech.
Industry partners include New Zealand Winegrowers, Zespri International and other Kiwifruit partners, Forestry organisations, Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu and BioGro New Zealand.
The main project objective is to develop – with these partners - on-line user-friendly tools to facilitate sustainability assessment and reporting to meet market and regulatory demands. These web-based tools will facilitate uploading of regular monitoring results and instantly summarise and report back trends to the producers, to industry representatives, and to agriculture regulators and policy makers at regional and national government levels. It could as well provide information to enhance management decision making for businesses and assist in enhancing their overall sustainability performance and to provide regular feedback to producers for learning.
Internationally recognised frameworks and their key generic sustainability performance indicators (KPIs) will be co-opted to ensure that overseas consumers can benchmark and verify the sustainability credentials of New Zealand exported products.
The Sustainability Dashboard is primarily being developed to assist producers with the rational management of the large amounts of information available and to assist them with their subsequent management decisions. It will also help them comply with the ever increasing demands for market and regulatory reporting. It is anticipated that the use of the tool and enhanced information flows resulting from it will assist producers optimise their overall farm performance including productivity/profitability while protecting environmental and social values. It will reduce monitoring and regulatory costs, build consumer trust, secure market access and garner support from wider New Zealand society by verification and regular reporting of standardised sustainability criteria.
