Election 2023 - Agriculture Policy
Act
Spokesperson:
Simon Court
Link to
policy here
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Simon Court
- Shift the responsibility of managing, regulating, and verifying farm plans from central government to regional councils.
- Ensure farm plans have a consistent template across different regional councils.
- Make regional councils or approved third party verifiers responsible for verifying farm plans. If a farm plan is verified as compliant, and no significant changes occur on the property, or no changes occur within a specified period of time, no further verification will be necessary.
- Require regional councils to monitor environmental impacts of farming, stipulating that a decline in environmental standards must be detected before actions is taken.
- Give regional councils the authority to determine when a breach is acceptable, such as when a natural disaster occurs.
- Allow live animal exports, a half-billion-dollar industry for New Zealand, and require it to operate according to a world-leading “gold standard”.
- Make sure people with practical animal handling and farming experience are appointed to the National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (NAWAC).
- Read more here
Green Party
Spokesperson:
Eugenie Sage
Link to
policy here
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Eugenie Sage
- Regulate agriculture production in Aotearoa New Zealand to significantly reduce livestock numbers, reduce the proportion of land users for livestock and phase out synthetic nitrogen fertilisers.
- Ensure that Aotearoa New Zealand honours its commitment to the International Methane Pledge.
- Ensure that planted forestry is for the purpose of carbon offsetting and will provide multiple benefits and services.
- Strongly support mandatory country of origin labelling for all single-ingredient imported agricultural products.
- Committed to keeping the Aotearoa/New Zealand environment free of GE organisms.
- Encourage efficient rural use of energy, especially oil (particularly for soil cultivation, irrigation, and inputs such as synthetic fertilisers, herbicides and pesticides), to reduce current energy dependence.
- Support farmers to regenerate their land and natural ecosystems to sequester more carbon dioxide than the total CO2 equivalent on-farm emission released.
- See more here
Labour
Spokesperson:
Not yet available on their website.
National
Spokesperson:
Todd McClay
Link to
policy here
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Todd McClay
- Introduce a 2-for-1 rule for the next three years: for every new regulation that central or local government wants to introduce on the rural sector, they must take away two.
- Require local and central government to assess the costs of all new rules on the rural sector and publish the findings.
- Establish a Rural Regulation Review Panel to consider all regulations affecting farmers.
- Require new rules to be assessed for their costs to farmers with findings published.
- Focus environmental protection on areas of high environmental value.
- Commit to real consultation – officials must consult on a genuine, open and transparent basis and respect differing views.
- Eliminate resource consents to build water storage infrastructure on land, unless wetlands or Significant Natural Areas are affected.
- For other types of water storage, require councils to approve or decline consents within two years, and consents will last for 30 years.
- Make commercially-grown fruit and vegetables a permitted activity under the Resource Management Act. In most cases, growers will not have to obtain a resource consent to grow more food.
- Increase maximum penalties for breaching border biosecurity rules, to protect our primary industries.
- Read more here and here
New Zealand First
Spokesperson:
Link to
policy here
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- Build the New Zealand First Farms initiative to assist qualified new entrants toward farm ownership by leveraging Landcorp’s balance sheet.
- Facilitate water storage and irrigation schemes while working in tandem with local groups and Government to fund and build water storage capacity and capability, so that they meet the needs of modern aquaculture and horticulture.
- Provide government co-funding for primary sector ‘New Zealand Brand’ value add initiatives, such as Beef and Lamb New Zealand’s “Taste Pure Nature” or protecting the term of ‘Manuka Honey’.
- Increase funding and capacity for primary production research.
- Introduce accelerated depreciation for wintering sheds.
- Dedicate funding for riparian planting and fences.
- Read more here
Te Pāti Māori
Spokesperson:
Not yet available on their website.