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Technical Report

Integrating horticultural and arable land use options into hill country farming systems: The multi-criteria decision-making process

The ‘Integrating Horticultural and Arable Land Use Options into Hill Country Farm Systems' research project aims to develop a process and tools for crop identification…
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Summary

Pointing the way: Indicators for a better Aotearoa New Zealand

This report summarises the programme of work undertaken by the Indicators Working Group and offers a few high-level lessons. The key recommendation is that a…
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Rural Professionals Fund 2020–21

There were 15 successful projects in the first funding round for the Our Land and Water Rural Professionals Fund.
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Journal Article

Wellbeing Economics in Public Policy: A Distinctive Australasian Contribution?

The ‘Wellbeing Budget' presented to the New Zealand Parliament in 2019 was widely described as a world-first. This article explores the possibility of a distinctive…
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Technical Report

Examining the effect on sediment loss by differential pricing in the ETS to encourage land use change on highly erodible land

We defined three land use change scenarios on highly erodible land to examine the effect on sediment loss by differential pricing in the New Zealand…
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Technical Report

Application of Physiographic Science to the Northland Region: Preliminary Hydrological and Redox Process-Attribute Layers

Water quality outcomes can vary spatially across the landscape, even when there are similar land use pressures. These differences are often the result of natural…
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Journal Article

Māori Agribusinesses – The Whakapapa Network for Success

Reviews of Māori land generally focus on how the 80% identified as'under-performing' or'under-utilised' can be more productive. This article analyses the 20% of Māori Land…
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Guidance

What You Can Do In Your Catchment

A catchment, or whaitua, is an area of land where rain flows into a common river, lake or other body of water. A healthy water…
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Interactive Tool

Forest Catchment Planner app

The Forestry Catchment Planner provides a comprehensive and intuitive platform for understanding plantation forestry harvesting cycles in a geospatial context within New Zealand's vulnerable landscapes.…
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