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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Total soil cadmium concentrations in the Winchmore long-term phosphorus fertiliser trial are still increasing
Reliable data on the rate of cadmium (Cd) accumulation in soils that receive phosphorus (P) fertiliser is vital to help manage the impact of Cd…
The impact of policy on sustainable land use options in New Zealand
Do current national and regional policy frameworks discourage (or insufficiently encourage) change at the scale and diversity needed for the Our Land and Water National…
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…
Integrated Landscape Mapping of Water Quality Controls for Farm Planning
Farm environmental planning – Science, policy and practice, February 2018
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…
Workforce Implications of Land-Use Change
Investigating workforce as a constraint on land-use changes
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Linking the taniwha and dragon: Māori primary exports into China and culturally aligned value chains
Māori primary producers have focused their export attention to China, with many seeking to turn supply chains into value chains. Little attention is paid to…
Application of remote sensing in spatial irrigation scheduling
While the science of calculating crop coefficients using remote sensing has been around since the 1970's, a robust commercial product is not yet available. This…
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An instruction is not a plan: how to create value in the primary sector