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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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Journal Article
A risk index tool to minimize the risk of nitrogen loss from land to water
Simple models can help reduce nitrogen (N) loss from land and protect water quality. However, the complexity of primary production systems may impair the accuracy…
Technical Report
Terrestrial macrofauna invertebrates as indicators of agricultural impacts
This report examines how invertebrates like spiders and worms can be counted to evaluate the impact of regenerative farming practices. Farms have vastly more insects,…
Video
What is eDNA?
Amy Gault, Freshwater and Community Science Lead from Wilderlab, talks about eDNA. She was filmed at Te Miro Farm, while sampling the source of the…
Technical Report
Land Use Diversification Challenges and opportunities for three North Canterbury farmers
This project concentrated on the unique opportunity to assess three separate farm businesses and the proposed changes to their systems, illustrating the environmental impacts and…
Video
Murray Hemi describes Te Tiriti model, Taiao Manawa Ora: Purpose-led Change
This short interview with Murray Hemi is to support understanding and use of the Taiao Manawa Ora: Purpose-led Change model. This model was developed to…
Technical Report
Multilateral Data Sharing: Lessons from a case study with organisations managing beef genetics data
Multilateral data sharing (MLDS) is a long-held goal of many organisations in New Zealand’s food and fibre industries. It is also an efficient way to…
Presentation
Monitoring to detect changes in river water quality across New Zealand
Presentation at Freshwater Sciences 2023, the joint meeting of the Society for Freshwater Science and the Australian and New Zealand Freshwater Science societies.
Summary
Supporting complex decisions on land-use change
A framework to support making major decisions about on-farm change is described in a short Research Findings Brief, for farmers, growers, farm consultants, rural professionals…
Summary
Taieri Land Use Diversification Opportunities
This website shares a variety of resources produced by a project working with farmers in the Upper Taieri Wai catchment group (Ranfurly, Central Otago) to…
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