Connecting communities for effective farm plans

Our vision is for healthy, resilient land and water: an environment that will take care of us far into the future. To move towards this future, we need to work together to create and apply practical, common sense solutions.

Land use intensification and the degradation of water quality was enabled by a resource consenting system that considered all farms separately, despite their cumulative effects on water quality. What we need now is a new, collective approach in our solutions. In a lot of New Zealand catchments, water quality goals will be met by bringing people who care for and work the land together to design integrated farm environment plans based on shared sub-catchment objectives. Join us to learn how mitigations can be brought together and prioritised as an effective integrated farm environment plan.

Speakers

• Jim Sinner, senior scientist in the coastal and freshwater group at Cawthron Institute and co-leader of the New Models for Collective Responsibility programme, will talk us through a four-step process for developing farm plans that are integrated across catchments, to meet sub-catchment objectives
• Kati Doehring, of the Register for Land Management Actions programme, will share the results of farmer interviews describing what motivates and hinders stakeholders to record and report land management actions
• Research spotlight: John Arrell, head of enabling technology at Farmlands Cooperative, will share some insights into the design of initiatives to support and incentivise positive actions on-farm, from the soon-to-be-published Our Land and Water report, How to Enact On-Farm Environmental Change

The Better Together webinar series

Our Land and Water invites you to four webinars to share research that brings together people, data, business and communities to responsibly care for our land and water.

Webinar 1: The vision
More diverse, resilient, healthy landscapes by 2030
Monday 30 November, 12–1pm

Webinar 2: The challenge
What the data tells us about our water
Monday 7 December, 12–1pm

Webinar 3: The solutions (part 1)
Connecting communities for effective farm plans
Monday 14 December, 12–1pm

Webinar 4: The solutions (part 2)
Bringing people together for diverse land use
Monday 21 December, 12–1pm