Theme 1
Understanding Risk
Improved tools and methodologies for identifying hazards, assessing risk, predicting impacts and ascertaining where in the system mitigation measures are best targeted for intentional and unintentional introductions.
Theme 2
Pathway Risk Management
Fit-for-purpose tools and methodologies for reducing risks along importation pathways.
Theme 3
Readiness & Response
Tools and strategies for preparedness for and response to incursions of invasive plant pest species, including
diagnostic methods and tools to enable informed biosecurity decisions.
Theme 4
Te Ao Māori
Kaupapa Māori research with the view to embedding mātauranga into biosecurity outcomes that ensure tiakitanga of the whenua, taiao, ngahere and Aotearoa kātoa.