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Call for abstracts and registrations for the 2022 NZARES conference
September 1-2, Nelson Beachside Conference and Events Centre
The NZARES committee invite you to attend the 2022 conference titled
Better Resilience, Sustainability and Production: Interdisciplinary, International, and Inclusive.
The conference will be held in Nelson on Thursday 1st and Friday 2nd September at the Beachside Conference and Events Centre.
The pre-conference field trip on Wednesday 30th of August will feature a vinyard and research winery tour.
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SOME KEY DATES
- Conference registrations open: 10 June 2022
- Initial call for papers: 10 June 2022
- Last day for early bird registration: 12 August 2022
- Deadline for abstracts: 12 August 2022
- Upload full papers by 30 September 2022 (see the link on your confirmation email)
PROGRAMME
2021 conference summary
The New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (NZARES) annual conference was all set to be held in sunny Nelson on 2 and 3 September. Then, two weeks beforehand, a community case of the delta variant was discovered in Auckland and the government implemented a snap nationwide lockdown. The NZARES committee did an amazing job pivoting the entire conference programme to Zoom, though unfortunately the field trip to sustainable wineries will have to wait until next year.
Professor Nicola Shadbolt from Massey University gave the opening lecture on the conference theme of What’s next for the Primary Industries? Then, the first panel session covered Covid-19 Impacts on Primary Sector Supply Chains. Next, the 95 registrants participated in the first of four contributed paper sessions, which included 45 presentations from across NZ over the two days.
The second day of the conference featured two panel sessions. The first panel of the day was entitled Climate (He Waka Eke Noa). It refers to the Māori whakataukī the government has used for the current agriculture climate change policy process, meaning “we’re all in this together”. The second panel session was a discussion about Sustainable and Innovative Practices, with a focus on-farm. The final session of the day was led by AARES President Gavan Dwyer, who gave a fascinating talk on The productivity performance of the Australian dairy industry.
Femi Olubode began his term as president of NZARES, with Nazmun Ratna serving as president-elect for another year. Wei Yang joined the committee as Secretary. We extend our thanks to Ramilan Thiagarajah and Rachael Davidson, who remain on the committee but step down from their busy roles as President and Secretary. Amaka Nnaji won the Best Paper Award for Determinants of the risk perception of farmer-herder conflicts: Evidence from rural Nigeria. The Best First Time Presenter Award was given to Odmaa Narantungalag for "The Local Impacts of Natural Resource Extraction: Evidence from Mongolia". Tiffany McIntyre received this year’s NZARES Post-Graduate Award.
The online conference received positive feedback from participants, particularly given how quickly it had to be shifted from an in person event. We hope to be able to pick up next year with an in person event.