Ideas That Grow

In this month’s episode, Bryan talks to Dr. Solis Norton about the complexities of energy and how we measure its use, in the context of a world shifting from fossil fuel dependency to embracing alternative forms of energy.

In this month’s episode, we talk to Lincoln University’s Professor Hamish Gow, a leading expert on value chains, entrepreneurship, and trade.

At a time when nimble innovation and entrepreneurship are needed to meet a fast-changing food and fibre sector, Hamish unpacks value chains, trade and talks about the new Value Chain Innovation Programme.

In this month’s episode, Bryan Gibson talks to 2015 Nuffield Scholar Dan Steele.

Dan runs Blue Duck Station on the Whanganui River, with his wife Sandy, kids Blue, Snow, Forest, River, and the Blue Duck Team.

Farming non-intensive sheep and beef, Dan has diversified to also offer tourist accommodation, hunting experiences, and manuka honey.

Dan believes there’s plenty of room for us to improve the way we protect and capitalise on our unique place in the world.

Despite being one of the youngest to complete a Nuffield Scholarship, Sophie has been working in agritech for eight years. She shares a view of the role technology can play in agriculture; in both AI and in harnessing it’s power to tell food and fibre’s stories.

In this month’s episode, Bryan Gibson talks to New Zealand Climate Change Ambassador, Trish Rankin.

In 2019 Trish was Dairy Woman of the year and completed a Kellogg Rural Leadership Programme. For her research report she looked at on-farm rubbish and the ‘take, make, dispose’ economy that creates it.

Trish discusses responsibly tackling the rubbish a farm can generate and some strategies that improve on the past’s ‘throw it in a hole’ thinking. Trish wants us all to do better with rubbish.

In this episode, Bryan Gibson talks to 2018 Kellogg Scholar Penny Clark-Hall about her research on the social licence to operate in the rural economy.

How much trust do you have from your stakeholders? How it is gained, and how it is lost? How to engage with people in a positive way?

Read Penny's Kellogg report "How to Earn Your Social License to Operate" here: https://ruralleaders.co.nz/how-to-earn-your-social-licence-to-operate-penny-clark-hall/

In this month’s ‘Ideas that Grow’ podcast, we talk to Cam Henderson (2019 Nuffield Scholar) about on farm energy solutions.
Cam  used his Nuffield research to explore links between agriculture and  energy and how technology can work to harness farmed energy sources  including waste matter to supply national energy needs.

Oscar Beattie graduated from the Kellogg Rural Leadership Programme in December 2020 and has a First Class honours degree in Ag Science from Lincoln University. Oscar is a Horticultural Analyst Craigmore Sustainables in Christchurch.
This interview is focused around Oscar’s Kellogg Research Topic Sustainable Impact Investing into New Zealand’s Horticultural Sector: Is there an Opportunity and Can We Capitalise on It?

This month’s podcast features Siobhan O’Malley (2018 Kellogger) and Wayne Langford (2014 Kellogger), co-founders of Meat the Need - a charitable supply chain that allows NZ farmers to donate their produce to NZ families and food banks.
Siobhan and Wayne were the winners of the 2020 ‘Champion Award’ at the Primary Industries Awards in November this year – for their ‘Meat the Need’ charity.

In this episode, 2017 Nuffield Scholar Mat Hocken discusses his Nuffield journey and explains why he chose the research topic ‘Innovation in Agriculture,’ which ultimately led to the creation of the Rural Innovation Lab – a place where innovators can design, deliver and work with farmers and growers throughout the innovation process.