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MAF - Sustainable Farming Fund
The purpose of the Sustainable Farming Fund (the Fund) is to support projects that will contribute to improving the financial and environmental performance of the land-based productive sectors. The
Fund aims to help the land based sectors solve problems and take up opportunities to overcome barriers to economic, social and environmental viability. It will do this by bringing together
“communities of interest”. These are groups of people drawn together by a shared problem and/or opportunity in the sustainable use of resources. The Fund focuses on projects that are
practical and show value for money.
Agency: Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
Contact: Website |
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MFE - Sustainable Management Fund Projects
Projects funded in the - Voluntary Methods category. Voluntary methods are tools for internalising environmental costs, and identifying, avoiding, mitigating and remedying the environmental effects
of resource use. This includes Environmental Management Systems (EMS), codes of practice, eco-labelling, iwi management plans and guideline documents.
Agency: Ministry for the Environment
Contact: Website |
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Project Farmer
To assist farm families in the South Island high country establish an effective whole systems approach to problem solving, so they can build more robust farm businesses, taking into account each of
the ecological, economic and social components.
Agency: High Country Pastoral
Contact: Rural Futures Group |
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The New Zealand Forest Accord
A commitment by forest companies and conservationists to value, protect and conserve New Zealand's indigenous forests. The Accord was signed in 1991 by representatives of four industry organisations
and 10 conservation groups. It recognises the importance of commercial plantation forestry both as an economic activity and an alternative to the depletion of natural forests.
Agency: Forestry
Contact: Website |
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Wairarapa Hill Country Sustainable Land Use Study
Scoping study to define what the WRC needs to develop an acceptable package through which landowners can make decisions leading to sustainable land management.
Agency: Pastoral
Contact: Wellington Regional Council |
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Franklin Sustainability Project
MFE SMF Project to - Test and demonstrate sustainable land management systems relevant for commercial vegetable growing in Franklin region and to establish a pathway for the uptake of appropriate
sustainable land management information and technology. Short term objectives are minimisation of soil erosion and nitrification of ground water. Long term aims include incorporation of Integrated
Pest Management technology bio-diversity and preparation of economic versus environmental cost/benefit analysis for the production systems.
Agency: Vegetables
Contact: Website |
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Sustainable Viticulture Scheme for the NZ Wine Industry
MFE SMF Project. NZ Grape and Wine industry, through Winegrowers of NZ, has initiated and provided preliminary evaluation of a Sustainable Viticultural Scheme. This scheme, based on a scorecard that
directs vineyard management towards long-term sustainability, requires extensive evaluation in commercial vineyards before it can be available for industry-wide adoption. Funding is sought so the
scheme can be evaluated, promoted and developed. The goal is for industry-wide adoption by 2000, protection of the vineyard environment and to secure export market access.
Agency: Wine
Contact: Website |
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Kiwifruit Environmental Management System
MFE SMF Project to reduce negative environmental impacts of the kiwifruit industry by March 2001 by: developing, trialing and implementing an Environmental Management System (EMS) for kiwifruit
production; documenting the resulting changes in environmental, financial and social indicators; developing the decision support systems necessary to reduce chemical inputs onto kiwifruit orchards;
determining the overall energy "balance" of a kiwifruit orchard; transfer the technology developed to the industry.
Agency: Kiwifruit
Contact: Zespri International Ltd, PO Box 4043, Mt Maunganui South |
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Economic
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MFE - Sustainable Management Fund
Projects funded in the - Local and Regional Environmental Quality Standards category. The intention of this topic area is to provide an incentive for local authorities, research agencies, industry
and non-government organisations to develop national environmental quality standards and guidelines. The aim is also to encourage projects which develop standards or guidelines that adapt or add to
national standards and guidelines. The results of these projects are either transferable to other regions or localities or adapt or provide additional aspects to national guidelines or standards.
They can be used to describe or prescribe technical measures relating to noise; contamination; water quality, level or flow; air quality; or soil quality with respect to the discharge of
contaminants.
Agency: Ministry for the Environment
Contact: Website |
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MFE - Sustainable Management Fund
Projects funded in the- Economic Instruments category. Funding in this topic area has focused on encouraging initiatives to develop or test the use of economic instruments. Economic instruments
ensure that environmental values are built into the price of goods and services. They replace or work alongside regulations to achieve desired environmental outcomes. Fiscal values may be assigned as
a way of getting the environmental impacts of a certain activity, or the importance of a resource within the ecosystem, valued in an economic context.
Agency: Ministry for the Environment
Contact: Website |
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Environmental
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The Environmental, Health and Economic Impacts of Air Pollution in New Zealand
The Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC), the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) and the Ministry of Transport (MoT) have developed a Joint Research Portfolio (JRP) to investigate some of the
existing knowledge gaps around the health effects of air pollution from transport, domestic fires, natural sources and industry in New Zealand. This is a three-year study that will examine the health
effects of air pollution in New Zealand and attempt to estimate their costs.
Agency: Health Research Council
Contact: Website |
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Farmer Update of Sustainable Farming Practices Through Community Participation and Demonstration
To establish the use of sustainable farming practices in the Waikato Region, so as to enhance and maintain existing resource productivity and achieve acceptable standards of environmental management
while maintaining farm viability.
Contact: Waikato Federated Farmers |
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MFE - Sustainable Management Fund
Projects funded in the - Sustainable Land Management and the Management of Non-Point Sources of Water Pollution category. This topic area addresses the environmental management of land resources in
New Zealand. Funding in this area seeks generally to maintain and ecological sustainability is the long-term goal of sustainable land management. Projects undertaken within this topic area are often
community-based initiatives.
Agency: Ministry for the Environment
Contact: Website |
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MFE - Sustainable Management Fund
Projects funded in the - Monitoring, Indicators and Comparative Risk category. Work undertaken in monitoring the environment and developing indicators form the basis for future state of environment
reporting. The Environmental Performance Indicators ( EPI) Programme, led by the Ministry for the Environment, is a coordinated and integrated approach to state of environment monitoring. Indicators
developed under this programme will provide relevant, credible environmental information to assess the state of the environment, help to formulate environmental policies and evaluate the
effectiveness of environmental policies
Agency: Ministry for the Environment
Contact: Website |
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MFE - Sustainable Management Fund
Projects funded in the - Maintaining and Restoring Biodiversity category. Addressing issues concerned with maintaining natural habitats and ecosystems on private land and sustainably managing
biodiversity in production landscapes and seascapes
Agency: Ministry for the Environment Contact:
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MFE - Sustainable Management Fund
Projects funded in the - Waste Management category. Allocation of SMF funding in this topic area is used to support the government’s waste management policy, which is: to ensure, as far as
practicable, waste generators meet the costs of managing the waste they produce: to encourage implementation of the internationally recognised hierarchy of reduction, reuse, recycling, recovery and
residual management (the 5Rs).
Agency: Ministry for the Environment
Contact: Website |
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Social
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MFE - Sustainable Management Fund
Projects funded in the - Maintaining and Enhancing the Exercise of Kaitiakitanga category. This topic area recognises the role of tangata whenua as kaitiaki ( guardians of an area in relation to
natural and physical resources). The objectives of the topic area are to encourage Maori to develop ways of incorporating matauranga Maori ( knowledge which derives from Maori tradition and custom)
into environmental planning, develop working models for resource management training for Maori, and develop innovative models for iwi management planning and monitoring.
Agency: Ministry for the Environment
Contact: Website |
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MFE - Sustainable Management Fund
Projects funded the - Influencing Attitudes and Behaviour category. Through this topic area the SMF seeks projects that are innovative and actionoriented approaches to improving understanding of
human impacts on the environment. Funding in this topic area is intended to help: foster community understanding of human impact on the environment and ways to minimise impact encourage local
government, industry, iwi and the rest of the community to develop policies and action plans that acknowledge their roles and responsibilities in environmental education encourage partnerships to be
developed between the various sectors to ensure the best use of limited resources and information and to build on existing strengths
Agency: Ministry for the Environment
Contact: Website |
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Landcare Resource Kit
Development and Distribution. MFE SMF funded project - To develop and distribute a landcare group resource kit. This will address the issues facing any person, group or agency trying to work
collectively to address sustainable management of resources issues.
Agency: Ministry for the Environment
Contact: Women's Division of Federated Farmers, PO Box 12021, WELLINGTON, ph
(04) 473-5524 |
