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©2015 Waikato Institute of Technology Developing Sustainable Business The TS Farming Solutions Case Dr Henk Roodt Centre for Transdisciplinary Research and Innovation [email protected] Copyright 2015 Wintec. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/ republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from Wintec.

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  • ©2015 Waikato Institute of Technology

    Developing Sustainable Business

    The TS Farming Solutions Case

    Dr Henk Roodt

    Centre for Transdisciplinary Research and Innovation [email protected]

    Copyright 2015 Wintec. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/ republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from Wintec.

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    This Talk

    •  The Wintec approach and technology •  The TS Farming Solutions Requirement •  The initial stages of a co-created solution

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    Design Approach

    Integrative solutions

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    Focused on Real Business Problems

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    Systems Thinking Approach USER REQUIREMENT

    CONTINUOUS VALIDATION

    DEMONSTRATED SOLUTIONSYSTEM CONCEPT

    SOLUTION

    FUNCTIONAL DESIGN

    TIME

    DETAILED DESIGNS

    BUILDCOMPONENTS

    INTEGRATION

    VERIFY FORM & FUNCTION

    PROTOTYPE SOLUTION

    Iterations

    ANALYSIS

    SYNT

    HESI

    S

    Iterations

    Iterations

    Itera

    tions

    Itera

    tions

    Itera

    tions

    Adapted from Kevin Forsberg and Harold Mooz (1995) by JHS Roodt 2013.

    Checkland, P & Poulter, J 2010, ‘Soft Systems Methodology’, in M Reynolds & S Holwell (eds), Systems Approaches to Managing Change: A Practical Guide

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    Sustainable Farming Approach

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    Sustainable Farming – Day 1

    CAN YOU HELP US DESIGN A REVOLUTIONARY FARM, A CLOSED LOOP TYPE FARM, ONE WITH ZERO INPUT/WASTE?

    Perpetual Motion? Third law of thermodynamics?

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    Sustainable Farming

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    l TSFShasdevelopedafarmingsystemwhichwilldrama8callyincreasefarmrevenuewhilesignificantlyreducinggroundwaterandatmosphericpollu8on.l Thesystemisbasedonasustainablefarmingmodelwherewasteisu8lisedthroughoutthesystemtoprovideavaluablereusableresource.

    -RichardTyree:TSFS

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    The current farm project

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    Advantages of a “closed loop” dairy system Ø Mul8pleIncomestreams

    milk,fish,vegetables,crops

    Ø Significantlyreducedenvironmentalimpact

    60%lessgreenhousegas lessNitrifica8onofwaterways

    Ø Rangeofpoten8alloca8ons

    almostanycountry,almostanywhere

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    Sustainable Farming

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    Sustainable Farming

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    Sustainable Farming

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    Sustainable Farming

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    Sustainable Farming

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    Educa&on TSFarmingisintegra8ngeduca8onintotheclosedloopsystemwithassistanceandfundingfrom;

    Ø  NZMinistryofEduca8onØ  NZMinistryofPrimaryIndustriesØ  WintecØ  NorthTecØ  PrimaryITOØ  NorthlandTradesAcademy

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    Educa&on...con&nued Keyaspectsoftheapproach

    Ø  EngagestudentsearlyandacrossawiderangeofdisciplinesØ  Meaningfulandrelevantlearning–projectbasedapproachØ  PhysicallearningspacewithspecialisttutorsØ  Fullimmersion

    Ø  InvolvingInterna8onalStudents

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    WheretheKouralive…….

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    Wherethestudentslive…….

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