Download Adapting to climate change Information for the New Zealand food system

It is very difficult to say what the New Zealand primary industry and food system landscape will look like in 2050 and 2100. Global socio-economic trends may proceed along a highly globalised and sustainable pathway with subsequent low (or zero) greenhouse gas emissions and relatively mild climate changes; or they may proceed along a highly regionalised and resource-intensive pathway where greenhouse gas emissions are high and unabated and climate changes are at the top end of current projections. Or, it might be somewhere in between. Each one of these global pathways will have local, national and international consequences for the New Zealand primary industry and food system landscape.