The NZARES Conference 2026, the New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society's annual conference, runs 27–28 August 2026 at The Commodore Hotel, Christchurch, with a 26 August pre-conference field trip. Registration is open and a full programme of keynote, plenary, panel and contributed-paper sessions is confirmed.
The NZARES Conference 2026 is the annual gathering of New Zealand's agricultural and resource economics community, held in Christchurch on 27–28 August 2026 with a pre-conference field trip on the afternoon of 26 August. Registration is open and the full programme is published on the organiser's site.
The conference is organised by the New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (NZARES), an incorporated academic society and the New Zealand counterpart of the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES). NZARES runs this conference annually (Nelson in 2025, Wellington in 2024), publishes proceedings, and awards prizes including the Best Paper and First Time Presenter awards. The 2026 event is sponsored by DairyNZ and the Ministry for Primary Industries, per the organiser.
The audience is academics, researchers, policy analysts and primary-sector practitioners in agricultural and resource economics. The 2026 programme, per NZARES, opens with the Robin Johnson Memorial Session keynote from Dr Robyn Dynes of the Bioeconomy Science Institute, alongside plenary speakers from New Zealand and overseas including Professor Chris O'Donnell (University of Queensland) and Dr Gerald Schwarz (Thünen Institute, Germany). Three panel sessions cover Productivity, Biodiversity, and Irrigation and Fresh Water Management, with four concurrent contributed-paper streams. A conference dinner is held on the Thursday evening.
The conference is held at The Commodore Hotel (Commodore Airport Hotel Christchurch), 449 Memorial Ave, adjacent to Christchurch Airport. As context, the venue reports conference rooms seating up to 200 theatre style, nine rooms and spaces catering for 8 to 200 guests, and on-site parking for around 150 cars, making it a self-contained conference-plus-accommodation property. The airport-adjacent location suits a national conference drawing delegates from across New Zealand and Australia. The pre-conference field trip on 26 August departs from Lincoln University to view the Central Plains Water irrigation scheme and the Integral Health Dairy Farm at Ashley Dene.
As a recurring national academic-society conference with a confirmed venue, dates, keynote line-up and social programme, NZARES 2026 is a representative example of New Zealand's steady primary-sector and research-driven business-events calendar, anchored to a purpose-built regional conference hotel.
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