Centre for the Study of Agriculture, Food and Environment
University of Otago
P.O. Box 56
Dunedin 9054
New Zealand
Tel. +64 3 479 5220
Fax. +64 3 479 5266
csafe@otago.ac.nz
Welcome | Mihi
Tēnei te ruru
E koukou mai nei
Kīhai mahitihiti
Kīhai marakaraka
Te upokonui o te ruru terekou
He pō he pō
He ao ka awatea
Tahuri ana au ki te tihi o te mauka e kīa nei ko Aoraki
Nahana ko Pukaki te roto, nahana ko Waitakitaki te awa
Tēnā koutou
Kai te mihi ki a koutou te manawhenua o tēnei motu
Ko Te Waka o Aoraki
Ki kā kairakahau maha, tēnā hoki koutou.
Nau mai, tahuti mai ki tēnei paetukutuku.
The Centre for the Study of Agriculture, Food and Environment (CSAFE) is a transdisciplinary research centre at the University of Otago, within the Department of Geography under the Division of Humanities.
Research undertaken through CSAFE is targeted at the interface between social and environmental sciences. This interface is explored through the dynamics of agricultural sustainability.
Vision and Mission
Te
Tūtoro/Te Whakatakanga
CSAFE’s vision is for improved and more sustainable economic, environmental and social wellbeing in New Zealand.
CSAFE’s mission is to discover and promote effective, practical pathways to sustainable land use, food and fibre production, and wild food harvesting. This will be achieved through innovative bicultural and trans-disciplinary research of social-ecological systems, and by training students, our future researchers, environmental managers and policy makers to the highest international standards.
Achieving our Vision
Tutukutia
o Mātou Whakatakanga
CSAFE’s research identifies practical pathways to enhancing social, environmental and economic wellbeing through discovery of sustainable food production and harvesting strategies, and efficient environmental management. This will be achieved by:
- A trans-disciplinary approach: several disciplines working together to solve complex socio-ecological problems
- A focus on feedback between people, land and markets
- Discovering knowledge and tools to empower farming families and wild food gatherers to act in a sustainable way
- Research of effective governance initiatives that capture the potential of all stakeholders to make food and fibre production and wild food gathering sustainable
Our Future – Our Relationships
Te Wā e Heke Mai Nei – Ngā Hononga
CSAFE is working towards enhancing relationships with other researchers within the University of Otago, and with researchers nationally and internationally in the areas of:
- Sustainable land use (production landscapes)
- Ecological resilience indicators in production landscapes
- Governance issues surrounding land use
- Adaptive co-management and ecosystem management
- Bicultural partnership models for science and management
- Energy use on productive land
The CSAFE SEMINAR series
Upcoming Seminars:
There are currently no CSFAE Seminars scheduled. If you are interested in presenting, please contact us.
news & events
Event
Otago Foreign Policy School - Dimensions of the Global Food Crisis
26-28 June 2009
Directors:Associate Professor Hugh Campbell & Dr Chris Rosin
A range of internationally recognised speakers will address a variety of aspects of and perspectives on the global food crisis. These include:
• the causes of the world food crisis,
• the future shape of global agriculture,
• a sustainable diet for planet earth,
• the effects of energy scarcity and biofuels,
• the role of local food systems,
• the future of global food trade for food exporting countries,
• the key challenges for New Zealand and its food export industries.
Please click here to downloaded presentations.
Event
Radio New Zealand Interview - What the world food crisis means for NZ
14 June 2009
Interview of Associate Professor Hugh Campbell who talks about some of the issues that will be highlighted at the Otago Foreign Policy School (interview duration: 09′35″)
News
23 Sept 2008
Researchers at CSAFE have been awarded a Marsden Grant to the value of $870 k over 3 years.
Associate Professor Henrik Moller & Dr Janet Stephenson:
Plans, Power and Partnerships: re-visioning planning and resource management theory for adaptive co-management of environment by indigenous people for cultural-ecological resilience.
Report Release
17 August 2007
The State of the Organic Sector in New
Zealand, 2007
Summary Report
Event
2-4 April 2007
Do People Matter in Social Scientific Analyses of Environmental Politics?
Resources from Dr. Arun Agrawal’s 2007 visit including streamed movie.
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