Technical Papers - 1992
92/1 Pastoral Sector Impacts on the New Zealand Economy
Prakash Narayan and Ram SriRamaratnam
June 1992
ISBN 0-477-08558-X
The study was undertaken mainly to facilitate greater use and application of a Pastoral Sector Supply Response Model developed within Policy Services of MAF in order to assess the income and employment implications of pastoral sector output variations.
92/2 Use of Galileo Methodology for Extension Evaluation
Phil Journeaux
April 1992
ISBN 0-477-08559-8
The study forms part of MAF Policy initiative to produce a position paper on technology transfer to support policy advice. Recent advances in social sciences quantitative methods provide opportunities to measure the effectiveness of agricultural extension programmes. Galileo is one of a number of research methods available. The paper concludes with recommendations.
92/3 Proceedings of the MAF Policy Seminar: "Co-operatives Legislative Requirements and Sources of Capital
John Askwith
June 1992
ISBN 0-477-08564-4
A report summarising the papers presented at a policy forum seminar on 28 April 1992, together with subsequent discussion from participants.
92/4 The Contribution of Women to the Rural Economy Stage One: Scoping Report
M J Rivers
June 1992
ISBN 0-477-08565-2
This report is the first stage of a two part study of women in the rural economy. In this report published and unpublished information is brought together to provide a scoping study of the role and contribution of rural women today compared with the past; compares this role with that of rural men as well as urban men and women; their hopes, aspirations and formal recognition.
92/5 Trends in Methane Emissions from Ruminants in New
Zealand, including the Influence of Forestry
David Rhodes
June 1992
ISBN 0-477-08566-0
The report evaluates the trends of methane emissions from New Zealand agriculture both in absolute terms and relative to global trends. Assumptions are made about future supply and demand for agricultural and forest products together with estimated trends in methane emission rates associated with these sectors.
92/6 Farmer and Farm Worker Health and Safety Survey Report.
R M Houghton and A Wilson
June 1992
ISBN 0-477-08568-7
The report presents the results of a national survey of farmers and farm workers conducted in March 1992 to obtain information about the health and safety experiences of New Zealand farmers and farm workers.
92/7 MAF Policy Conference Papers in Agricultural Economics 1991.
Prakash Narayan and Robin Johnson
July 1992
ISBN 0-477-08569-5
Conference papers presented by MAF Policy staff to the 1991 annual conference of the New Zealand Branch of the Australian Agricultural Economics Society. The papers represent a wide selection of subject matter.
92/8 Risk in Agriculture: An Arbitrage Pricing Theory Approach.
D L Newman, G A Anderson and P G Seed
July 1992
ISBN 0-477-08570-9
This report is part of a series of projects completed for the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Rural Policy Unit relating to the definition and measurement of agricultural risk. The objective is to attempt to apply Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) to the pricing of agricultural assets in New Zealand.
92/9 Rural Resources Unit Bibliography of Reports and Publications.
Robin Johnson
July 1992
ISBN 0-477-08572-5
A bibliography of the research reports and other publications commissioned by the Rural Resources Unit since 1988. It also includes conference papers, related publications and internal intelligence reports.
92/10 Review of Agricultural Credit in New Zealand.
J Nimmo
July 1992
ISBN 0-477-08573-3
The purpose of the report is to assess the current attitudes of the major lenders to the agricultural sector and the implications of lending criteria for debt management by farmers and advisory agencies such as MAF.
92/11 Regional Inter-Industry Transaction Tables: Their Use in the GRIMP Software Package in Regional Impact Analysis.
G V Butcher
November 1992
ISBN 0-477-08593-8
This paper describes the way in which the regional tables and accompanying employment: output ratios were generated, and includes a worked example of how these tables can be modified and used in a particular project to estimate inter-industry employment, income and output effects. The example project is a simulated expansion of dairying in Canterbury.
92/12 Application of the Stochastic Budgeting Model (SBM) to the Wanganui/Rangitikei Hill Country Class 4.
R Forbes, et al.
September 1992
ISBN 0-477-08575-X
The final report on the application of the stochastic model (SBM) to the Wanganui/Rangitikei hill country class 4 farm-monitoring model, showing the range of main budget parameters analysed.
92/13 Valuing Water of the Ashburton River:In-stream Flows versus Irrigation.
R J Lynch and J A Weber
September 1992
ISBN 0-477-08576-8
The paper was compiled from Richard Lynch's thesis (1992) which analyses water use issues in the Ashburton River. In stream values were estimated using a telephone survey and contrasted with a mathematical technique estimating potential value of water for irrigation by farmers.
92/14 New Zealand Regional Rural Diversity: Part 1: A 1986 Profile.
J Newell
September 1992
ISBN 0-477-08578-4
The report illustrates the extent and nature of regional rural diversity in New Zealand and confirms that sharp contrast exist between the rural areas in different regions. These differences in the economic and social fabric of the different regions imply differences in service needs, community resources, potentials and priorities.
92/15 MAF Policy Conference Papers in Agricultural Economics 1992.
Prakash Narayan and Robin Johnson
October 1992
ISBN 0-477-08580-6
Conference papers presented by MAF Policy staff to the 1992 annual conference of the New Zealand Branch of the Australian Agricultural Economics Society. The papers represent a wide selection of subject matter.
92/16 A Stochastic Model for Financial Forecasting at the Farm Level: A Case Study for Two Central Otago Sheep and Beef Farms.
Peter Jarvis, Rod Forbes and Alan Stent
July 1992
ISBN 0-477-08581-4
The report is concerned with demonstrating the use of a specialised computer simulation program for dealing with uncertainty in data used to compile a farm budget. The Stochastic Budget Model allows a large number of input variables to be defined stochastically within a whole farm budgeting framework for sheep, beef and cropping enterprises.
92/17 Agriculture and Water Quality in New Zealand.
Jim Sinner
October 1992
ISBN 0-477-08582-2
This paper examines the extent of agricultural impacts on water quality in New Zealand. It describes the physical and biological impacts and how other users of water are affected by them. It describes the responsibilities of various parties under the Resource Management Act 1991.
92/18 The 1992 Livestock Valuation Review. A Farmers Guide to the Decisions Made by Government.
John King
October 1992
ISBN 0-477-08583-0
An information paper for farmers outlining the new systems of livestock valuation, how these affect the farm business and the main factors which should be taken into account when selecting the best options for the future.
92/19 Farm Business Sustainability - Understanding Viability Trends Through Time.
L Saunders and S Cumberworth
June 1992
ISBN 0-478-07315-1
The objective of the report is to identify the factors contributing to the variance of farm performance with the purpose of constructing data on the degree of sustainability of the enterprise and how this changes through periods of high and low financial performance.
92/20 Changes in the New Zealand Kiwifruit Industry 1980-1992
N Lees
March 1993
(Published June 1992)
The report presents information on the changes which have taken place in the kiwifruit industry from 1980-92. Significant changes have occurred as a result of the declining returns to growers. Economic factors, orchard physical factors, marketing, world markets, and the post harvest sector have all undergone change over the study period.
In March 1992, MAF Policy adopted a new publication policy. This established three publication categories, one of which comprised a number of subcategories. These are summarised as follows:
MAF Policy Public Discussion Papers:
These papers are published to invite public submission on proposed new policy.
MAF Policy Position Papers:
These Papers state MAF's official position on particular issues, eg the end result of a Public Discussion Paper.
MAF Policy Information Papers:
Covering four sub categories set out below:
MAF Policy Public Information Papers:
Papers written for publication that are descriptive in nature, eg synopsis of submissions.
MAF Policy Technical Papers:
Papers written for publication that are analytical or expository in nature and are generally sourced from staff operational research activities of either staff or external consultants commissioned by MAF Policy.
Situation and Outlook for NZ Agriculture:
An annual publication of the current situation and future outlook for key agricultural products and agriculture in general.
Farm Monitoring Reports:
Farmer expectations of short term financial and physical forecasts on a regional and national basis.
Prior to March 1992, there was no central coordination of publication. MAF Policy published one series of policy papers covering public discussion, policy position and information. This was initiated after MAF's 1990 restructuring that established MAF Policy as a single business group. Up until the end of 1991, there were 13 MAF Policy papers published. A fourteenth one that should have been included in the series is also referenced here.
Policy Services have maintained an annual bibliography of resource economic, technical, contract and internal papers dating back to 1952. The last such updating was:
Pre 1992
Bibliography of Reports
1952-1991
M J Arthur-Worsop
ISSN 1170-5167
ISBN 0-477-08555-5
This is a bibliography of all Resource Use Papers, Technical Papers and Internal Papers produced by the Regional and Resource Use Section of the Economics Division, since the formation of the Division in 1970. Economic papers on resource use subjects, produced before 1970 by staff who later formed the Economic Division, are listed from 1952 onwards.
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