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Our mission is to preserve the most fundamental treasures of Aotearoa – its land and water – while producing value from those same treasures.
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The fourth and final round of the Rural Professionals Fund is now open. Apply by 6 March 2023.
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Integrating horticultural and arable land use options into hill country farming systems: Site-specific crop options and value chain-based business case
The ‘Integrating Horticultural and Arable Land Use Options into Hill Country Farm Systems' research project developed a process for crop identification and assessment to help…
Project Summary: Integrating Horticultural and Arable Land Use Options into Hill Country Farm Systems
This article summarises the results of a Rural Professionals Fund project that aimed to develop a process and tools to help farmers select different crops…
Plant species rather than elevated atmospheric CO2 impacts rhizosphere properties and phosphorus fractions in a phosphorus deficient soil
By 2050, elevated atmospheric CO2 (eCO2) could stimulate plant growth, but dwindling phosphorus (P) stocks in the soil could limit growth. However, little is known…
Global Guidance on Environmental Life Cycle Impact Assessment Indicators 2
The Global Guidance for Life Cycle Impact Assessment Indicators 2 is aimed at life cycle assessment practitioners and method developers. It identifies the current best…
De-Risking Land-Use Transformation in New Zealand
Agricultural Economics Society, April 2019, Belgium
Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Sustainability and Other Attributes
Evidence gathered by four separate Our Land and Water research programmes has found that food shoppers in New Zealand's key export markets do value attributes…
Regenerative Agriculture
Developing a framework to collect scientific evidence about regenerative agriculture in Aotearoa
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