| AHB |
Animal Health Board, now TBfree New Zealand, which is a part of OSPRI |
| BusinessNZ |
New Zealand's largest advocacy group for enterprise |
| CABI |
CABI is a not-for-profi t international organisation that improves people’s lives by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment. |
| CEMARS |
Certified Emissions Measurement and Reduction Scheme |
| CRC |
Cooperative Research Centre (Australia) |
| CRI |
Crown research institute |
| CSIRO |
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Australia) |
| DairyNZ |
DairyNZ is the ‘industry good’ organisation, representing New Zealand's dairy farmers |
| DCD |
Dicyandiamide, a nitrification inhibitor |
| DNDC |
Denitrification-decomposition computer simulation model |
| DOC |
Department of Conservation |
| Ecosystem services |
The 'free' services that healthy ecosystems provide e.g. clean water, fertile soil, storm water retention, erosion prevention |
| Environmental limits |
The point at which ecosystem services collapse, e.g. the soil's biological community is depleted to the extent that they can no longer replenish nutrients |
| E. coli |
Escherichia coli, a bacterium commonly found in the lower intestine of mammals |
| EQC |
Earthquake Commission |
| FAO |
Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations |
| Kaitiakitanga |
Traditional guardianship of natural resources |
| KPI |
Key performance indicator |
| LCDB |
Land cover database |
| LINZ |
Land Information New Zealand |
| Mātauranga |
Traditional cultural knowledge |
| MBIE |
Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment |
| MFAT |
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade |
| MfE |
Ministry for the Environment |
| MPI |
Ministry for Primary Industries |
| NGO |
Non-governmental organisation |
| NLRC |
National Land Resource Centre |
| OSPRI |
Operational Solutions for Primary Industries, comprised of the TBfree New Zealand and the National Animal Identifi cation and Tracing programmes |
| S-map |
Digital soil map for New Zealand |
| TB |
Tuberculosis |
| TFBIS |
Terrestrial and Freshwater Biodiversity Information System |
| TPK |
Te Puni Kōkiri |
| UNFCCC |
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |
| ZESPRI |
The kiwifruit marketing board (not an acronym) |
