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Jacqueline Sara Rowarth CNZM (born 1956) is a New Zealand and British agronomist, dairy farmer and science administrator. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Jacqueline Rowarth | |
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| Born | 1956 |
| Occupation(s) | Agronomist, dairy farmer |
Jacqueline Sara Rowarth CNZM (born 1956) is a New Zealand and British agronomist, dairy farmer and science administrator. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Rowarth was born at St Albans, UK. [5] She moved to New Zealand in 1976 and has an Agricultural Science degree with first-class honours in Environmental Agriculture, and obtained a PhD in Soil science from Massey University, with a 1987 thesis titled Phosphate cycling in grazed hill-country pasture. [6] She worked at AgResearch for 6 years before teaching plant science at Lincoln University. [7] From 2000‐2004 she was Dean of the Postgraduate Division and Director of Research at Unitec. She was briefly Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne from 2005 to 2006. She returned to New Zealand as a professor, teaching at Massey and Waikato universities. [8]
In October 2016 Rowarth left Waikato to become the first Chief Scientist of the Environmental Protection Authority. [9] [10] In 2018 she resigned from her role at the Environmental Protection Authority. It was later revealed that the EPA was warned her behaviour was damaging trust in the organisation, apparently due to comments to the media about environmentalist concerns that she deemed unwarranted. [11] [12] According to Rowarth she was often misquoted. [13] [14]
Rowarth became a farmer-elected representative on the board of DairyNZ. [2] In 2024, she is a Director, and also adjunct professor at Lincoln University. [4]
Rowarth has strongly criticised veganism. She has argued that a vegan diet will not save the planet from climate change and has also argued that an omnivorous diet including a moderate amount of dairy products and meat delivers the required nutrients per person for least environmental impact. [15]
She has also criticised regenerative agriculture based on the restoration of soil fertility through techniques like water retention and composting, and supports the intensification of agricultural practices with higher levels of inputs and output per unit area. [16]
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