Pūhoro STEM Academy university students are heading into the workplace as summer interns, with sponsorship from the Our Land and Water National Science Challenge. Nine Pūhoro students who last month…
Two Pūhoro STEM Academy students, Ella Cameron-Smith (Ngāti Raukawa, Ngai Te Rangi) and Meschka Seifritz (Ngāti Kauwhata), were first to pilot the Pūhoro internship programme now sponsored by Our Land…
New Zealand’s farmers have been given the freedom to set their own path to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on farm, with a 2022 deadline for making progress. For farmers who…
Water quality varies widely between regions around New Zealand, even where there are similar land uses and pressures. This is because the natural landscape has a much bigger influence on…
Organic, 100% pasture-fed and carbon-neutral are examples of ‘credence attributes’: a feature of a product that cannot be perceived, but may have environmental, animal welfare, social welfare or cultural benefits.…
What is co-innovation and how can it be applied in practice in a research project? Co-innovation is the process of jointly developing new or different solutions to a complex problem…
The Next Generation Influencers (NGI) programme was devised as a capability-building programme for the future influencers of our land and water in New Zealand. NGI participants applied to take part…
The Our Land and Water Symposium is now over. Find videos of the presentations here. How do we restore the most fundamental treasures of our country – our land and…
Kia ora mai tatou. My name is Chris Koroheke and as kaiurungi my role at AgResearch is to steer the ocean voyaging waka as we drive prosperity by transforming agriculture.…
The Faecal Source Tracking project used DNA sequencing to identify 23 strains of ‘naturalised’ Escherichia coli that are not associated with risk to human health, unlike other faecal strains contaminating…
There were 26 New Zealand scientists at the 4th International Interdisciplinary Conference on Land Use and Water Quality (LuWQ 2019), held in Denmark in June 2019 to discuss the policy…
Cattle urine and many fertilisers contain nitrogen, and increasing dairy cow numbers in New Zealand have led to nitrate leaching becoming the most pervasive agricultural contaminant of our fresh water.…