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Agricultural Emissions Dialogue: November 2013
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Short Film and Teaching Resources. Saturday, 9 November 2013. A Negotiator’s Perspective: the Future of Agriculture in the UNFCCC Negotiations. Post written by H. Griffin. With this year’s annual international climate change (UNFCCC) negotiations kicking off in Warsaw on Monday, now is a good time to look at agriculture’s place in the negotiations and where things might be headed in the future. Q What is New Zealand hoping to achieve in relation to agriculture at the negotiations in Warsaw? A The discuss...
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Agricultural Emissions Dialogue: Z Energy Biodiesel Press Release
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Short Film and Teaching Resources. Wednesday, 16 April 2014. Z Energy Biodiesel Press Release. This post is syndicated from Motu’s new Shaping New Zealand’s Low-Emission future blog. By Z Energy on 3. A key issue has afflicted the large scale production of biofuel in the past: feedstock crops would be grown on land that could otherwise provide food, leading to food supply reductions, price rises, increased pressure to clear land and higher rates of deforestation. In the press release, Bennetts suggests t...
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Agricultural Emissions Dialogue: August 2013
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Short Film and Teaching Resources. Thursday, 15 August 2013. Retracing the Footprints of our Livestock. Post written by H. Griffin. Carbon footprinting has become commonplace these days. Go online and you’ll find articles about the footprint of just about anything – your diet, your travel and even your pets. There are also various calculator. S available that can figure out the totality of your own personal footprint, if that’s what you so desire. But what actually goes into putting the numbers together?
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Agricultural Emissions Dialogue: Land use models do work (at least sort of)
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Short Film and Teaching Resources. Monday, 15 September 2014. Land use models do work (at least sort of). By Corey Allan and Suzi Kerr. Land-use models are used to explore possible futures, anticipate and diagnose problems, and simulate the effects of different policies. ‘All models are wrong but some are useful’ and more carefully developed and rigorously tested models are more useful. If you are interested in how land-use models are and should be used, our recent paper. LURNZ is used to. Kiwiology R...
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Agricultural Emissions Dialogue: Links
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Agricultural Emissions Dialogue: Food and Greenhouse Gases: Emissions Intensity of Nutrition Sources
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Short Film and Teaching Resources. Monday, 27 January 2014. Food and Greenhouse Gases: Emissions Intensity of Nutrition Sources. Post written by C.Will. This offers a compelling argument for significantly reducing our consumption of animal protein to reduce our GHG emissions. However, it is important to consider the nutritional differences between animal protein and high protein foods obtained from plants. Food and Greenhouse Gases. 3 October 2015 at 22:06. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Food and Gr...
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Agricultural Emissions Dialogue: Betting the farm on it – how rural land use (may) change with recent commodity prices and land sales
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Short Film and Teaching Resources. Thursday, 4 December 2014. Betting the farm on it – how rural land use (may) change with recent commodity prices and land sales. For my honours thesis last year I decided to look into recent rural land use changes in New Zealand and whether changes may be associated with recent commodity prices and land sales. I’m very happy that my thesis has now taken the form of a Motu Working paper. Here is a quick summary of some things I learnt along the way. However, I was unable...
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Agricultural Emissions Dialogue: December 2013
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Short Film and Teaching Resources. Wednesday, 18 December 2013. An Economist’s Perspective on Value. Post written by C. Will. Motu has just released a Note on “Value and Natural Capital: Examining the Economist’s Perspective”. Written by Josh Pemberton and Suzi Kerr. The paper considers what economics brings to a conversation about environmental value, and what the limits of its contribution might be. Post written by C. Will. The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) released a report. Source: Gerber,...
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Agricultural Emissions Dialogue: January 2014
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Short Film and Teaching Resources. Tuesday, 28 January 2014. Food and Greenhouse Gases: Climate change, agricultural production and food demand. Post written by C.Will. Our recent blogs have been discussing food security, and the role agricultural production has to play in ensuring a sustainable future. Below are two recently published papers that incorporate the effects of climate change into this discussion. 8220;Climate change effects on agriculture: Economic responses to biophysical shocks”. The prob...
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Agricultural Emissions Dialogue: September 2014
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Short Film and Teaching Resources. Monday, 15 September 2014. Land use models do work (at least sort of). By Corey Allan and Suzi Kerr. Land-use models are used to explore possible futures, anticipate and diagnose problems, and simulate the effects of different policies. ‘All models are wrong but some are useful’ and more carefully developed and rigorously tested models are more useful. If you are interested in how land-use models are and should be used, our recent paper. LURNZ is used to. For instant bl...
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