Wine Case Study
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The NZSD Project has had a focus in the NZ Wine Sector on enhancing the reporting of sustainability-related information. Below is an overview of the reporting and some examples.
Overview of SWNZ reporting
Reports templates for Wineries and vineyards on Agrichemicals, Water, Irrigation and Energy.
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Adoption and outcomes of sustainable winegrowing practices in NZ.
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This sub-project part of the Wine case study is managed by Dr Marion Sautier and Dr Katharine Legun. The purpose of this project is to review the outcomes of the SWNZ programme. This includes direct, intentional outcomes as well as outcomes that may not be explicit in the SWNZ mandate or purpose. After collecting and analysing data from interviews and a literature review, a draft operational report was issued in June 2015 and shared with NZ Winegrowers. The report reviews challenges and opportunities for the future of SWNZ. It is also looking at the development of SWNZ historically, and how its emergence and evolution has influenced and been influenced by changes in the New Zealand wine industry more broadly.
Finally, further studies (scoping the diversity of member needs, assessing the impact of a future Sustainable Winegrowing NZ programme, studying the impact of metrologies) and initiatives (deploying regional delegates of SWNZ, developing scenario for the industry) are recommended to enhance the value of SWNZ for participants. |
Poster "Adoption and outcomes of sustainable winegrowing practices in NZ" - Prepared for the Stakeholder workshop - 6 August 2015
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Related information
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September 2015 Andrew Barber's article "The value of benchmarking: empowering sustainable winegrowing" has been published in Irrigation New Zealand - Spring 2015 magazine. December 2014 Vicent Gasso's PhD thesis "Assessing Sustainability of Agricultural Systems: Balancing Context Specificity and Generality" has been published in River Publishers (Open access). As part of an exchange with Aarhus University - Denmark, Vicent spent 6 months in New Zealand in 2013, in the NZSD project team – working on a comparative case study, using the SWNZ prototype, leading to a paper presented by Andrew Barber at the IHC2014 conference - see Conferences and Seminars - August 2014. |
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August 2014
Andrew Barber presented the following paper at IHC - 29th International Horticultural Congress, 17-22 August 2014, Brisbane, Australia.
Benchmarking Energy and Water Efficiency in New Zealand Wine Production: Eco-Verification and Incentivising Improvement Using the New Zealand Sustainability Dashboard - Andrew Barber*, Vicent Gasso-Tortajada, Henrik Moller, Jon Manhire, Frank Oudshoorn, Claus Sørensen.
Andrew Barber presented the following paper at IHC - 29th International Horticultural Congress, 17-22 August 2014, Brisbane, Australia.
Benchmarking Energy and Water Efficiency in New Zealand Wine Production: Eco-Verification and Incentivising Improvement Using the New Zealand Sustainability Dashboard - Andrew Barber*, Vicent Gasso-Tortajada, Henrik Moller, Jon Manhire, Frank Oudshoorn, Claus Sørensen.