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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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Journal Article

Temperature and Nitrogen Effects on Phosphorus Uptake by Agricultural Stream-Bed Sediments

Climate change will likely increase the growing season, temperatures, and ratio of nitrogen (N) to phosphorus (P) loss from land to water. However, it is…
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Video

Introducing The Value Chain Compass

New research has revealed how New Zealand producers are creating higher returns from sustainably produced primary products. In some cases that premium is perceived to…
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Interactive Tool

Freshwater Improvement Scenario Builder

The Freshwater Improvement Scenario Builder is a tool for exploring the effect of mitigation strategies and land use change on water quality. It shows the…
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Interactive Tool

Bread in New Zealand

Online tool to access and analyse results of a survey of bread consumers in New Zealand about their consumer behaviour, preferences, and country-of-origin preferences
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Presentation

Reducing the reliance of New Zealand livestock systems on internationally produced feed

Presentation to NIPIM and farmers that gives an overview of: global grain production and New Zealand grain and feed production; imports of grain and feed…
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Technical Report

Nguturoa catchment ‘Seeing Understanding Believing’ project

The project focussed on building capability and capacity for change in the farming sector, to assist in creating new pathways towards future landscapes, by identifying…
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Technical Report

Enabling Te Mana o Te Wai with Cultural Health Assessment Tools

In 2020, Poipoia embarked on research funded by Our Land and Water National Science Challenge with the primary aim of exploring the application of how…
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Technical Report

Resilience indicators for rural New Zealand towns: Statistical analysis

The AgResearch Resilient Rural Communities (RRC) programme engaged PwC to conduct analysis of official statistics for rural areas of New Zealand. The analysis extended earlier…
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Where are we conducting our research?

This interactive map shows the location of all our research projects to help connect you with the research happening in your catchment.

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