Key findings Increasing trend in dairy cattle and total cattle Decreasing trend in beef cattle, sheep, and deer Dairy cattle increased 68.9 percent, from 3.84 million in 1994 to 6.49 million in 2015. New Zealand farmed around 29.1 million sheep, 10.0 million cattle (6.5 million for dairy), and 0.9 million deer in 2015. In 2015, Waikato had the highest number of dairy cattle (1,761,949), followed by Canterbury (1,253,993), Southland (731,209), and Taranaki (541,931). Dairy cattle numbers increased 539 percent (616,831) in Southland, 490 percent (1,041,501) in Canterbury, and 368 percent (302,806) in Otago between 1994 and 2015. Reference: http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/environment/environmental-reporting-series/environmental-indicators/Home/Land/livestock-numbers.aspx
Project objective A clear statement of what your final output is trying to achieve (what objective do you want your work to be assessed against?). One approach could be to put this right upfront – boom – then go to ‘why pick this?’ and explain the context and research process. Another approach is to state the objective to round off your discussion of the problem and audience. The problem / The context / The situation What is the issue you want to address / the problem you want to solve? Lots of different ways to do this eg personal story; statistics; user quotes. Any of these (gripping story, compelling stats, strong quotes) can make a good start. The audience Who is your project for? Maybe identified by demographics (age, location, profession), attitudes, behaviours. Maybe personae. Research / Process Explain research methodologies, how you used them, what you found. Prototyping and user testing might be important here, but usually not a blow-...