Key topics
- Sustainable agriculture
- Rural change and farmer decision-making
- Trade, regulation and governance
- Retail and consumer trends in food products
Principal investigators
Current Research
- MaaraTech: Artificial Intelligence in Orchards and Vineyards
- Protein 2.0
- Good Animal
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)
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
