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August 30, 2024
Our Land and Water has now ended.
Our mission was to preserve the most fundamental treasures of Aotearoa – its land and water – while producing value from those same treasures.
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Technical Report
Kia Whakatōmuri te Haere Whakamua: Reimagining primary production based on traditional models of the past
This research paper identifies and discusses the key differences and commonalites of Pākehā and Māori societal structure, governance and cultural motivation, Western agricultural systems and…
Summary
Primary Industry Trade at Risk Unless Assurance is Tightened
Two recently published reports look at the gap between Aotearoa’s assurance schemes for the primary sector and our trade potential. A new report, EU Green Deal:…
Technical Report
Meeting the Needs of the Sustainable Finance Sector: Informing the Kaitiaki Intelligence Platform Design
This report outlines the environmental reporting data sought from the sustainable finance sector. It identifies the types of reporting data that could be automatically generated…
Video
Connecting communities for effective farm plans – webinar
Land use intensification and the degradation of water quality was enabled by a system that considered all farms separately, despite their cumulative effects on water…
Presentation
Road testing collective action design principles
Jim Sinner’s presentation at the IASC Conference, May 2021
Journal Article
The potential for potassium chloride fertiliser applications to leach cadmium from a grazed pasture soil
Cadmium (Cd) is a biotoxic element that can enter the human food chain via plants grown in Cd-enriched soil. Chloride (Cl) can solubilise Cd in…
Journal Article
Land use and water quality (Editorial)
The issue of land use and land-use intensity has long been linked to water quality globally. Changing land use in New Zealand, especially in pastoral…
Journal Article
Phenotyping early-vigour in oat cover crops to assess plant-trait effects across environments
Early-vigour is a plant trait phenotypically characterised by a rapid expansion of leaf area in early stages of crop growth, before canopy closure. Although early-vigour…
Journal Article
Reflecting on the journey of environmental farm planning in NZ
Environmental farm planning in New Zealand dates to the 1950s when soil conversation plans were first undertaken. Since then the extent and complexity of whole…
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