@conference {40637,
	title = {The New Zealand policy framework for sustainable agriculture and some implications for animal production research},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {54},
	year = {1994},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {369-372},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	abstract = {International environmental influences are becoming increasingly  
important to farm management decisions on New Zealand farms.  New Zealand  
has been active in meeting international commitments in issues such as the  
UNCED Biodiversity Convention, the UN Framework Convention on Climate  
Change, and the Montreal Protocol on Ozone Depletion.  New Zealand now  
needs to focus on the impacts of agriculture on the environment.  This paper  
backgrounds recent policy developments in New Zealand leading up to the  
release of a Ministry or Agriculture and Fisheries position paper on sustainable  
agriculture.  The position paper defines sustainable agriculture as having  
environmental, economic, social and market dimensions.  MAF believes that  
new approaches will be needed to encourage farmers to adopt more sustainable  
farming systems.  There are market opportunities presented by providing  
customers with assurances of the environmental quality of our products and the  
processes by which they are produced.  There are also issues of resource  
degradation that must be addressed through standards under the Resource  
Management Act.  The influence of these changes on farming practices in New  
Zealand is reviewed in this paper.  Issues confronting farming systems  
researchers and animal production scientists wishing to contribute to  
sustainable agriculture in New Zealand are identified. },
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Frizelle JA and Morris SD and Walker AB}
}
