Attitudes of a farming community towards urban growth and rural fragmentation-An Auckland case study

Future research needs to focus on determining the consequences of continuous development pressures onto versatile land in relation to a country's, current and future, food-growing capacity. This will be imperative as the population continues to grow. It will not only inform the environmental impacts of these land use decisions but also the socio-economic consequences that will aid with fully informed planning, policy and decision-making that account for a multiplicity of needs.