Future Focus: Signposts to Success for New Zealand's Primary Industries
Summary: Top 10 Strategic Threats and Opportunities
• Climate change: “adapt or bust”; infrastructure; insurability; mitigation technologies.
• Biosecurity: climate change impacts; increased trade and tourism; risk-benefit of management interventions.
• Carbon-constrained economy; new business models; investment and trading opportunities.
• The end of cheap oil; renewables; security of supply.
• Resource sustainability; optimal land use; freedom to operate?
• Water wars? Virtual water exports; water quality and allocation; water enhancement.
• Market perceptions: “food provenance”; non-tariff barriers; secondary regulation.
• Market opportunities: sustainability branding; functional foods for health.
• Strategic investment in R&D, skills and capability.
• Leveraging Māori cultural capital and other intellectual property.
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Strategy and Performance Group
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
Pastoral House
25 The Terrace
PO Box 2526, Wellington
Tel: +64 4 894 0593
Fax: +64 4 894 0738
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