SECOND TIER
Learning and on-going education Final Vote Score 16 (Mentions 14)
Consumers
- Money to fund impartial information
- Education
- Education
- Comprehensive information available
Producers / Manufacturers / Marketers / Retailers
- Consumer information about GMFs readily available (new technologies made this possible e.g. bar codes information computers in supermarkets)
- Individual consumers given the choice over what they eat i.e. labelling
- Development of an effective education and communication strategy about GMFs
- Knowledge by most people of their health risk
- Open communication along the food chain
- Giving the consumer the ability to decide
- Science more understandable
- Improved flow of information
Research
- Biotech foods are recognised for their benefits
- Food labelling is key to consumer confidence
Market diversity and opportunities Final Vote Score 14 (Mentions 15)
Consumers
- Exporters get saturated with opportunities as GE Free / Organic Eco-Nation status explodes
- Market niche opportunities
- Govt. undertakes medium term 20 year plan in creating an Environment for the future
- Freedom of choice
- Greater demand for organic and spray free
- Regionally driven organic food supply feeds local demands and co-operates with National level
- Food regulations need to support the primary relationship between grower and consumer
- Working together: economic clout
- Economy booms as global demand for organics escalates – tourist numbers sore – restrictions …
- NZ gets world-wide acclaim as leaders in restrictive land management
Producers / Manufacturers / Marketers / Retailers
- Designer foods for different consumer sectors Producers have rights to produce for their perceived consumer
Research
- Growers and manufacturers accept some GM foods as marketable
G.E. free New Zealand and organic increases by Year 2020 Final Vote Score 12 (Mentions 8)
Consumers
- GE food not required in an organic nation
- No benefit to consumers; GE foods made redundant
- No GE / GMO imports into New Zealand
- No more GE!
- $$s placed into organic systems research / education / tech. Transfer
- GE abandoned in favour NZ being and Organic Eco-Nation by 2020
- Accept GE technology as premature and limit its use to observation
Producers / Manufacturers / Marketers / Retailers
- Multinational companies less influential
Research
Cultural, religious and philosophical issues to be addressed Final Vote Score 10 (Mentions 5)
Consumers
- Acknowledge a sense of broader social responsibility
- Cultural religious philosophical Consumer the key to acceptance long term
- Food regulations to support the needs of the consumer
Producers / Manufacturers / Marketers / Retailers
Research
- Food regulations respect cultural and religious beliefs
- Respect for diversity of food needs and wants
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Dr Sharon Adamson
Manager,
Innovation Policy
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
PO Box 2526
Wellington
NEW ZEALAND
Phone: +64 4 894 0618
Fax: +64 4 4 894 0741
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