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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
Composting Mootels on the West Coast
Dairy farming in New Zealand faces challenges. The industry's social license to operate is being questioned as environmental and animal welfare standards tighten. Amid these…
Technical Report
Challenges and Opportunities for New Zealand Agriculture under Climate Change (2022 update)
Future climate is likely to have a major impact on the primary sector, and has the potential to drive major shifts in land use as…
Summary
Supercharge your data collection when participating in community-based monitoring of freshwater environments
A brochure for rural community and catchment groups, explaining how the data they collect can help detect changes in freshwater quality – but only if…
Summary
35 Drivers Likely to Impact Farming in New Zealand: Fact Sheets
Each of the 35 global trends and challenges likely to influence land use change in New Zealand, identified by the Matrix of Drivers project, has…
Technical Report
Te Rito Hāpori: Integrating Medicinal Cannabis Outdoor Cropping Within Established Farming Operations in Southland
As an emerging option for farmers, commercial outdoor growing of medicinal cannabis remains a relatively new and somewhat untested endeavour, particularly in the Otago-Southland region.…
Journal Article
Does variable rate irrigation decrease nutrient leaching losses from grazed dairy farming?
A six-year study was conducted to determine whether the use of variable rate irrigation (VRI), compared to uniform rate irrigation (URI), could decrease N and…
Technical Report
Indicators in the NZ Sustainability Dashboard: An Overview of their Structure and Application
This report outlines the concept and structure of the New Zealand Sustainability Dashboard (NZSD), describes the NZSD sustainability indicators framework and details how the individual…
Technical Report
Integrated landscape mapping of water quality controls for farm planning – applying a physiographic approach to the Waituna Catchment, Southland
Living Water (a Fonterra and Department of Conservation partnership) commissioned a high-resolution physiographic assessment of the Waituna Catchment, Southland, to support water quality and biodiversity…
Technical Report
The Matrix of Drivers: 2018 Update
The Matrix of Drivers draws upon 650 unique sources of information (494 international and 156 domestic) of academic, industry, regulatory and legislative origin. This 2019…
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An instruction is not a plan: how to create value in the primary sector