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August 30, 2024
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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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Guidance
Why Pines? A context for recent research results which appear to support land conversion into pine forestry
Four research programmes funded by the Our Land and Water (Toitū te Whenua, Toiora te Wai) National Science Challenge (OLW) and completed in autumn 2024…
Video
Te Kapa o Te Reureu: Keeping the Home Fires Burning
Te Matatini has ensured kapa haka is now a well-recognised form of national entertainment, but this has led to some debate about tradition and contemporaneity,…
Infographic
Partnering for Change: A shared-responsibility approach to environmental change
This infographic outlines the key learning, recommendations and changes made as a result of the Urban-Rural Partnerships for Equal Change research project.
Rural Professionals Fund 2020–21
There were 15 successful projects in the first funding round for the Our Land and Water Rural Professionals Fund.
Video
Bringing people together for diverse land use – webinar
In some catchments, diversification to mixed land uses will be a more pragmatic solution than applying all mitigations on all farms – especially where a…
Journal Article
Soil hydraulic modelling outcomes with four parameterization methods: Comparing soil description and data inversion approaches
Different methods for parameterizing soil hydraulic models can lead to substantially varied predictions of soil–plant–atmosphere water fluxes. This study investigated, for a heterogeneous stony soil,…
Summary
Cathy Taite-Jamieson and BioFarm: Dairy Farming with Nature in the Manawatū
Her organic BioFarm yoghurt is available in most supermarkets in Aotearoa but she only milks around 100 cows. Read more here about the Māori and…
Summary
Nutrient losses from global dairy production systems differ
The demand for dairy produce is growing alongside concerns about the impact of intensive dairying on water quality owing to nutrient loss. We found that…
Phosphorus Best Practice
Investigating whether current fertiliser and effluent guidelines and policy are strong enough to prevent phosphorus loss
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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