View Our Strategy Document 2019 – 2024
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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Guidance
A practical guide for using green crops in New Zealand
This guidebook aims to make it easier for NZ farmers to use green crops more confidently and effectively. Doing so will improve nutrient creation and…
Journal Article
Balancing water-quality threats from nutrients and production in Australian and NZ dairy farms under low profit margins
We summarise the losses of N and P from Australasian dairy farms, examine the policy drivers used for mitigating losses and evaluate the effectiveness of…
Video
Winning the Green Premium: Beverage Sector webinar
Beverage consumers are demanding ever-greater sustainability in their drinks. That comes with a financial cost. How can producers earn more to cover these new costs?…
Journal Article
Incorporating Māori values into land management decision tools
Environmental sustainability and the long-term wellbeing of Māori (the indigenous people of New Zealand) are interdependent and degradation of landscapes risks the progressive degradation of…
Journal Article
Optimizing land use for the delivery of catchment ecosystem services
Despite widespread implementation of best management practices, sustainable farming is neither practical nor possible in certain locations, where protecting water quality and promoting agricultural production…
Technical Report
The Matrix of Drivers 2016: Driving Better Investment and Accelerating Impact Through a Prioritisation Matrix
This report presents the first stage of an overview of international and national drivers which have the potential to affect land use change and/or practice.…
Journal Article
Indirect faecal source tracking methods to elucidate critical sources and contaminant transfers through catchments – a review
In New Zealand, there is substantial potential for microbial contaminants from agricultural fecal sources to be transported into waterways. Understanding contaminant transport pathways from catchment…
Interactive Tool
Value Compass interactive
This interactive compass presents results of research that identified nine key elements of successful agri-food value chains from New Zealand. To learn more about each…
Journal Article
Factors controlling shallow subsurface dissolved reactive phosphorus concentration and loss kinetics from poorly drained saturated grassland soils
Shallow subsurface pathways dominate dissolved reactive phosphorus (DRP) losses in grassland soils that are: poorly drained, shallow, or have a perched water table in wetter…
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