Manawatu-Whanganui Rural Innovation Lab Pilot - 2020

The Collaborative designed the Rural Innovation Lab pilot project and the successful $400K submission to the Provincial Growth Fund for the Manawatū-Whanganui region in partnership with Massey University.

The overall objectives are to test how to best support a collaborative approach to generating innovative solutions to challenges in food and agriculture, prepare stakeholders for specific opportunities and drive greater on-farm absorption of new ideas, knowledge, practices and digital technologies into farming business models.