Papers presented at the eleventh annual conference of the New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (Inc.)

Published on behalf of the New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society by Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit, Lincoln University, [2005].The main themes for this Conference are: Agriculture, Agribusiness, Natural Resources and the Environment. This discussion paper includes the full text of the following papers: D Bewell, G Kaine, Adoption of environmental best practice amongst dairy farmers; J Sinner, A Fenemor, J Palmer, The adoption of market-based instruments for resource management: Three case studies; A E Dooley, D Smeaton, S F Ledgard, Identification of important criteria in farm systems decisions around Lake Taupo; A E Dooley, G Sheath, D Smeaton, Multiple criteria decision making: Method selection and application to three contrasting agricultural case studies; T Ramilan, F Scrimgeour, Modelling Waikato farm nitrogen discharges for policy analysis; N Jollands, M Ruth, C Bernier, N Golubiewski, Climate's long term impact on New Zealand infrastructure - A case study of Hamilton City, New Zealand; W Kaye-Blake, Neoclassical consumer theory and genetically modified food; S Awatere, The influence of cultural identity on willingness to pay values in contingent valuation surveys; G Kerr, R Cullen, K Hughey, Stated preference evaluation of government budgets; Y Takatsuka, R Cullen, M Wilson and S Wratten, Values of ecosystem services and organic farming on arable land; A N Rae, H Ma, J Huang, S Rozelle, Livestock in China: Commodity-specific total factor productivity decomposition using new panel data; A Wreford, C Saunders, S Rasin, An analysis of agricultural trade policy reforms and their impact on the EU, China and New Zealand; A Rae, S Shakur, The WTO Doha Negotiations: Fallacies and Priorities; K Bicknell, L Friesen, I MacDonald, A hedonic price analysis of the New Zealand wine industry; D Marsh, How can economists help clear landmines and unexploded ordnance?; M Cameron, S Lim, Migration, household composition, and child welfare in Rural Northeast Thailand; B Khakal, H Bigsby, R Cullen, Forestry policy and poverty: the case of community forestry in Nepal; P Kaval, J Loomis, The relationship between wildfire and welfare; P Khanh Trinh, P Kaval, The importance of indigenous biodiversity values of Waikato farms; E Moran, RCullen, K Hughey, Financing threatened species management: the costs of single species programmes and the budget constraint; G Hawke, R Lattimore, Scoping the history of economics in New Zealand; D Lillis, Developing agricultural statistics (slides); S Harris, M Doak, S Ford, T Bywater, J Bright, B Thorrold, Regional economic impact of water allocation and reliability; P O'Connor, What can we learn from horse racing; D Pannell, Policies and politics: Challenges and opportunities for agricultural and resource economists; A Patterson, S Martin, D Mollenkopf, Niche agribusiness supply chains and the channel coordinator's role in their creation and management; B Small, A Murphy-Macintosh, I Tarbotton, N Botha, Pastoral farmer goals and intensification strategies; D Lillis, J Fairweather, R Sanson, Smallholdings in New Zealand; R Johnson, The structure and economic impact of R&D organisation in New Zealand; N Botha, K Atkins, An assessment of five theoretical frameworks to study the uptake of innovations; K Bicknell, G Frisvold, A preliminary analysis of the returns to apoximis in rice; J Hendy, Simulating rural land-use change in New Zealand with the model land use in rural New Zealand model (LURNZ); S Kerr, Projecting Changes in Land Use and Animal Numbers with LURNZ and PSRM; J Hendy, S Kerr, Greenhouse gas emission factor module: Land use in Rural New Zealand- Climate Version 1; I Sin, E Brunton, J Hendy, S Kerr, The likely social impacts of an agricultural emissions policy in New Zealand: Preliminary analysis; S Kerr, Tradeable carbon credits for plantation forestry: A Straw Man; J Funk, S Kerr, J Hendy, A pilot project for indigenous forest reversion