<p>Even if livestock agriculture could technically be achieved with extremely low emissions, and currently it cannot, other land uses may be more profitable for New Zealand farmers once the costs of greenhouse gases and excessive nutrient run-off are fully accounted for. These could be extension of widely used existing land uses - forestry, native regeneration or existing fruit or arable crops - or currently untried or experimental uses.</p>
<p>This talk briefly reviews some evidence on the potential for more forests - including in response to the Freshwater Reforms - and then discusses why we might want to go beyond existing alternatives and what would be needed to facilitate more diverse land use.</p>
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<p><a href="http://motu.nz/our-work/environment-and-resources/emission-mitigation/agricultural-greenhouse-gas-emissions/the-role-of-land-use-change/">http://motu.nz/our-work/environment-and-resources/emission-mitigation/agricultural-greenhouse-gas-emissions/the-role-of-land-use-change/</a></p>
<p><strong>About Suzi</strong></p>
<p>Suzi Kerr is currently a Senior Fellow at Motu, a Principal Investigator in Te Punaha Matatini - a Centre of Research Excellence and an Adjunct Professor at Victoria University. She graduated from Harvard University in 1995 with a PhD in Economics. From 1998 to 2009 she was Director and Senior Fellow at Motu. In 2010 she won the NZIER Economics Award. She has also worked at the University of Maryland at College Park, Resources for the Future (USA), the Joint Center for the Science and Policy of Global Change at MIT, and more recently was a Visiting Professor at Stanford University for the 2009/10 year and at the University of the Andes in Bogot&aacute;, Colombia in the first half of 2014.Her current research work focuses on climate change. She empirically and theoretically investigates domestic and international climate change policy with special emphasis on emissions pricing and land use in both the tropics and New Zealand. She is Programme Leader for the Impacts and Implications programme of the Deep South National Science Challenge. She has previously worked extensively on economic instruments for managing water quality, fisheries and air quality. She has run four policy dialogue processes, one in the lead up to the establishment of New Zealand&rsquo;s emissions trading system, others on managing water quality in Lake Rotorua, on agricultural greenhouse gas emissions and (co-led) on New Zealand&rsquo;s Low Emissions Future, and she is currently leading a dialogue on New Zealand&rsquo;s ETS.&nbsp;</p>