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More Investment in Water Quality Monitoring is Needed

Aotearoa will not know if our water quality is improving for another 20 years unless we make a large investment in our water quality monitoring…
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Journal Article

Quantifying contaminant losses to water from pastoral land uses in NZ I: Development of a spatial framework for assessing losses at a farm scale

Assessing the effectiveness of mitigation measures for reducing contaminant losses to water from pastoral farming systems is a challenging task. Two important factors that contribute…
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Storying Kaitiakitanga: Exploring Kaupapa Māori Land and Water Food System Approach

This article explores the Indigenous principle of kaitiakitanga as it relates to Māori agrifood practices. Our discussion is based on interviews with a small cross-section…
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Connecting NZ Food & NZ Farmers to the World

Central Plains Water farmer meeting, December 2018
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Technical Report

Consumer Insights and Willingness to Pay for Attributes: Kiwifruit in Shanghai

To achieve greater value in global markets, New Zealand can increase its understanding of our international customers' demands for products from New Zealand's land and…
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Guidelines for the use of Pohewa Pae Tawhiti to support decisions around changes in land use

Pohewa Pae Tawhiti (PPT) (Visualising Horizons) combines whakaarotau and pohewa (priorities and visions) with biophysical data (current and modelled future) to enable potential options for…
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Co-Innovation Leads to High-Impact Indicators

This paper was commissioned by the Our Land and Water National Science Challenge to test the hypothesis: ‘Co-innovation leads to high impact indicators.' The Challenge…
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The land use suitability concept: Introduction and an application of the concept to inform sustainable productivity within environmental constraints

This paper addresses an application of the LUS concept: evaluating the suitability of land for sustained productivity subject to environmental constraints, as defined by water…
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