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Journal Article

Handrails through the Swamp? A Pilot to Test the Integration and Implementation Science Framework in Complex Real-World Research

The socio-environmental challenges the world faces are ‘swamps': situations that are messy, complex, and uncertain. The aim of this paper is to help disciplinary scientists…
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Co-production of insights for place-based approaches to revitalise te taiao in Aotearoa New Zealand

Communities across Aotearoa New Zealand are collaborating to reverse ecological decline, but little attention has been given to understanding the deeper relationship required with our…
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Kawakawa health products in Japan

Online tool to access and analyse results of a survey of health product consumers in Japan about their consumer behaviour, preferences, technology use, understanding of…
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Technical Report

Evaluation of Cow Collar Technology

Cow collars, including ear tags and boluses and tags with similar functions, are recent technologies which provide cow health and reproductive monitoring to improve livestock…
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Technical Report

A risk assessment approach for prioritising actions in farm environment plans with mahinga kai values

The project co-developed and produced a geospatial tool that is available through a webpage. The beta tool allows users (initially dairy farmers) to identify and…
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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…
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Journal Article

Amending soils of different pH to decrease phosphorus losses

In most cases the application of Al, Fe and Ca amendments decreased WEP in proportion to the rates applied. However, poor performance was noted when…
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The Value Project: How Can Aotearoa New Zealand Generate Greater Returns from Sustainable Production?

New Zealand is great at producing food. And we're getting better at doing it sustainably. So how can we capture that value and be rewarded…
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Technical Report

The Case for a Novel Edible Nut Agroforestry System

This paper reviews the case for a novel agroforestry system in the Rotorua lakes catchments, based on an interest in trees that can produce edible…
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