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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
How to Talk About the Future of Farming in Aotearoa New Zealand
This guide is to help people talk effectively about the future of farming, and land-use change in particular, to the general public and farming communities…
Guidance
The Catchment Group Toolkit
Build your Catchment Group Toolkit with resources from Our Land and Water and NZ Landcare Trust. Below you will find links to practical tools and…
Technical Report
Strip-till Fodder Beet to Improve Land and Water Outcomes
Fodder beet is an important crop for wintering in New Zealand farming systems. It keeps well through winter providing a high dry matter feed. However,…
Technical Report
Regenerative principles applied in New Zealand
This report summarises and describes 11 principles drawn from multiple focus groups with NZ farmers and growers. Some principles are focused on encouraging farm practices…
Technical Report
Collaborative expert judgement analysis of uncertainty associated with catchment-scale nitrogen load modelling with OVERSEER
The widespread view that use of OVERSEER-derived N loss estimates to set catchment-scale nutrient limits is an inappropriate use of this tool needs to be…
Guidance
Tools for Making Land Use Change Decisions (learning module)
Work through the activities in this kōwae (course) to learn how to help farm businesses to make decisions about land use diversification. You will learn:…
Video
Physiographics in the Waituna catchment
The Physiographic Environments of New Zealand research project, part of the Our Land and Water National Science Challenge, describes how the physiographics approach has been…
Presentation
Development of linked frameworks to represent and manage catchment-scale contaminant transport for improved water quality outcomes
Freshwater Society Conference, November 2017
Journal Article
Temperature and Nitrogen Effects on Phosphorus Uptake by Agricultural Stream-Bed Sediments
Climate change will likely increase the growing season, temperatures, and ratio of nitrogen (N) to phosphorus (P) loss from land to water. However, it is…
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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