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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
Enhancing mauri of land and water through land-use change
Located in the Waikato, Lake Waikare is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most polluted lakes. The Nikau Farm is a Maaori-owned farm at the southern…
Summary
Project Summary: Creating a Diverse Dairy Farming and Forestry Landscape
This article summarises the results of a Rural Professionals Fund project that aimed to assess the impact of trees in dairy paddocks on pasture production…
Guidance
Monitoring macroinvertebrates in rivers
Macroinvertebrates are animals that lack a backbone and, while small, are large enough to be seen with the naked eye. The freshwater environments they inhabit…
Journal Article
Silvopastoral agroforestry systems for dryland corners in Canterbury farms
Potential future water constraints on dry areas of Canterbury farms, combined with existing animal welfare requirements, have spurred interest in practices such as agroforestry that…
Video
Using green crops for soil fertility and health
These video resources have been created to make it easier for NZ farmers to use green crops more confidently and effectively. Doing so will improve…
Guidance
Make your stream monitoring data count! A national quality assurance framework for community-based monitoring in Aotearoa New Zealand
This national quality assurance framework will support community and CBM groups to collect freshwater data of a known quality that are ‘fit for purpose’. The…
Journal Article
Quantifying contaminant losses to water from pastoral landuses in New Zealand II. The effects of some farm mitigation actions over the past two decades
In New Zealand the primary sector together with central and local government agencies have been promoting measures to mitigate the adverse effect of farming practices…
Journal Article
Attribution of River Water-Quality Trends to Agricultural Land Use and Climate Variability in New Zealand
Trends at 1051 river monitoring sites across New Zealand incrementing annually for time windows of 10 and 20 years over the 28-year period ending 2017…
Journal Article
Designing transdisciplinary projects for collaborative policy-making: The Integration and Implementation Sciences framework as a tool for reflection
Collaborative policy-making has increased in New Zealand, and with it has brought new demands for supporting research. As a tool for reflection of projects where…
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