Agriculture and Food research

• Key topics
• Researchers
• Current funded research
• Postgraduate research
• Competed research

Key topics

• Sustainable agriculture
• Rural change and farmer decision-making
• Trade, regulation and governance
• Retail and consumer trends in food products

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Researchers

• Professor Hugh Campbell 
• Dr Karly Burch

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Current Research

• MaaraTech: Artificial Intelligence in Orchards and Vineyards (Burch)
• Protein 2.0 (Campbell)
• Good Animal (Campbell)

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Postgraduate research

• The political nature of food banks. (Cresswell Riol) 
• Social Capital and Small holder Dairy Farming resilience (Kresna)
• To See the City for the Weeds: exploring urban foraging in Dunedin/Ōtepoti (Virens)
• Food Waste at the production stage of the food value chain. (Croad)
• MaaraTech: Artificial Intelligence in Orchards and Vineyards (Ndaka)

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Completed research

• New Zealand Sustainability Dashboard
• Maori Women and Food sovereignty (Stein) 
• Fighting for Food Safety in Post-Fukushima Japan. (Burch) 
• Agriculture and Energy (Fitzgerald)
• Farmers’ participation in water pollution reduction programs in New Zealand. (Hall) 
• The Depoliticisation of Deprivation: Food Insecurity in Aotearoa New Zealand (Reynolds) 
• Enacting the alter-native: a theoretical reframing of Māori food initiatives in Aotearoa New Zealand (Piatti) 
• Indigenous Agroecology
• Agricultural Intensification and Climate Change
• Dairy Farm Management and Monitoring  (Manono)
• Biological Economies
• Rural Futures
• Global and Local: Agri-Food Systems  (Dwiartama)
• ARGOS (Agriculture Research Group on Sustainability)
• Adapting Principles from Te Rongoa into ecologically and culturally sustainable farm practice
• Sub-clinical Parasitism in Red Deer
• Indigenous Anti-Parasitic Plants: Contributions to biodiversity and agricultural sustainability
• Agriculture Research Group on Sustainability (ARGOS): Pathways to sustainability in primary production – social
• Agriculture Research Group on Sustainability (ARGOS): Pathways to sustainability in primary production – environment
• Constructive Conversations: Biotechnologies dialogue and informed decision making
• How green was my valley?
• The Fate of Biotechnology: Why do some of the public reject scientific technologies?
• Greening Food: Social and industry dynamics
• Farmer Subjectivities and Imagined Landscapes: Reponses to climate change in New Zealand

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