This report identifies a range of impacts arising from a changing climate that affects rural water infrastructure. Climate change will impact on both the performance and long-term operations of irrigation schemes and rural water supply schemes.

This paper focuses on the possible threat that four key pests pose to New Zealand's plantation forestry resource under climate change.

A report documenting experimental work and modelling to assess the impact of global change (increased temperature and elevated atmospheric CO2) on the germination and growth of C4 grass species, particularly kikuyu.

With projected increases in temperature and incidences of droughts and floods, pastures are likely to become more vulnerable to weeds and poor pasture persistence to become an increasingly significant issue. This on-farm study investigates whether increasing the diversity of sown pasture species can increase the pasture resilience and resistance to weeds under different climatic conditions. Thirty paddocks were selected in Northland, Waikato, Taranaki and North Canterbury.

A trend detection study examing frost occurrence in New Zealand in response to feedback from kiwifruit and viticulture industries that frost management is a key tool to adapting to climate change.

This study provides improved estimates of fire danger for New Zealand under
future climate. Fire danger ratings for two projection periods (the 2050s, 2040-
2059; and 2080s, 2070-2089) were estimated using monthly changes in weather
inputs (temperature, humidity, wind speed and rainfall).

Evaluation of the impact and direct effect of climate change on the productivity of New Zealand's planted forest systems.

The goal of this research is to determine whether additional evidence supports the initial observation that New Zealand's pastoral production systems may have a substantially reduced ability to cope with environmental stress under elevated CO2 conditions likely to be encountered with global change.

To establish end-user requirements for information and advice on how climate change is likely to affect drought and agricultural production in New Zealand and to establish methodologies and timelines required to develop appropriate updated analyses based on the latest climate change scenarios.

The goal of this report it to provide a platform for capacity development and action on adapting to climate change throughout New Zealand by developing case studies in the kiwifruit industry.

Note, while this document is marked 'confidential', it has since been approved for public release.

This report identifies the major opportunities that climate change brings to extend the growing season and increase forage crop yields through radical changes in forage germplasm and management.

Goal: Development of a methodology and software tool for assessing the sensitivity of rain-fed pastoral production at the regional scale to future climate change impacts on the soil water regime.

This project report provides estimates of the potential effects of climate change on weather elements (e.g. daily rain, temperature), mean daily river flows, irrigation water demand and water supply reliability for one catchment and associated irrigated area (Rangitata River in Canterbury).

There is an urgent need for N.Z. to enhance its ability to conduct comprehensive impact
assessments for pastoral agriculture under projected global change scenarios.

In this report we discuss some of the issues related to warming large areas of vegetation, describe our method of choice and present the results of a design and testing process leading to installation of this treatment in the NZFACE.

This report presents a summary and review of past research on the economic effects of climate on agriculture in New Zealand. These estimated effects are then compared with some new estimates that have been compiled specifically for this report.