A local Maori perspectiveMr. Chris Karamea InsleyMonday 22nd April, 2013Gisborne

A conversation about the local impacts of international trade deals, climate policy & the global financial crisis.

Maori lands on the East Coast• Among the highest concentration of

Maori lands in the country here on the coast;

• Enduring ties to our turangawaewae. Unlike other temporary players and international forestry players we have seen come and go from the region stripping value out of local assets, we will never leave our lands (and the region);

• Government policies (asset sales programs of the late 1980’s) that ravaged our coast communities and whanau;

• 1.2 million hectares of Maori lands that are under-performing or under-utilized.

“Ko te whenua te waiu mo nga uri i whakatipuranga”

[The land will sustain our future generations]

2010 2021 2031$0

$200

$400

$600

$800

$336

$442

$570

$336

$475

$681

Do nothng Best practice BERL projections

Todays $millions

20 Year Wealth ProjectionsNgati Porou Wealth Creation

2010 2021 20310

1,500

3,000

4,500

6,000

4,0384,493

4,970

4,038

4,732

5,607

Do nothing Best practice BERL projections

No. Ngati Porou jobs

20 Year Job ProjectionsNew Ngati Porou Jobs

2010 2021 2031$0

$35,000

$70,000

$105,000

$140,000

$83,279

$98,446

$114,600

$83,279

$100,342

$121,534

Do nothing Best practice BERL projections

Todays $ per Ngati Porou person employed

20 Year Salary ProjectionsRaising Ngati Porou salaries

Very-high and climbing Exchange Rate

0.0000

0.1000

0.2000

0.3000

0.4000

0.5000

0.6000

0.7000

0.8000

0.9000

0.8455

Series1 Long run trend-line

NZ$

to U

S$

Source: Reserve Bank NZ, August 2011

The constant decline in commodity prices

Source: CORIOLIS Research, November 2005

Land-based Aquaculture Project

• Diminishing wild-stock fisheries• Growing international demand for fresh fish• 100 percent Iwi owned• Current two year study

– International connections– Leading New Zealand researchers involved

• Some government support (MPI)• Project goals

– Review of all existing research– Design best practice framework– Model project management approaches– Practical replication models with other Iwi

• Study complete in 2015

Manuka Honey Project

• Unique variety of Manuka (in the world)• Growing international demand medicinal

products• 100 percent Iwi owned• Current two year study

– International connections– Leading New Zealand researchers involved

• Some government support (MPI)• Project goals

– Review of all existing research– Design best practice framework– Model project management approaches– Practical replication models with other Iwi

• Study complete in 2015

Renewable Energy Project

• A flag-ship project (not just for Maori);• Owned by the Marae;• Engineering partners;

– International;– Auckland University;– Auckland Institute of Technology;– Canterbury University.

• Leading investor and commercialization partners• Project goals

– Energy security and a new revenue stream for hapu– New and real jobs– Model project management approaches– Practical replication models

• Business-case at the end of August, 2013

20 Year Sustainable Development Plans

Tsunami GIS modeling (an example) Sustainable:• Economic development;• Social development;• Environmental development;• Cultural development;• Led by the community;• No support from central

government;• Complete end of August,

2013

Pampus Spraying (2009)

Pampus Spraying (2009)

Pampus Spraying (2010)

Pampus Spraying (2011)

Pampus Spraying (2012)

Planting Pohutukawa on our beaches

Protected Cultivation (Greenhouse)

• Another flag-ship project;• 100 percent Maori owned;• Leading Dutch technology

– Wageningen Institute (Netherlands)– University of Auckland– Plant & Food NZ

• Project goals– Food security– Sustainably grown– International trade– Large scale Maori development– Branded as Sustainable and Maori

• Business-case at the end of August, 2012

Climate change and Iwi Nationally

• Iwi interests consistently represented to successive governments

• Engagement direct with Ministers• Agreed 2013 priorities

– Collapse of NZU price– Transition to low carbon economy (clean-tech)– Recognition of indigenous forests– International negotiations and domestic

regulations– Science and Innovation funding– Support for Maori communities (power bills,

home insulation etc..)• Related Energy and Water policy

Policy lessons from our tipuna (Ngata)• Targeted investment policy with

long-term investment players (including Government as an investor);

• Targeted international trade policy particular to our interests here on the coast;

• Targeted science and technology policy defined by us (not the researcher)

• Targeted policy that balances economic, social, environment and cultural values

“No one-size fits all policy”