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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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Retiring Farmland into Ngahere
Restoring Aotearoa together: Triple the area, at one-third the cost
This project has produced
Technical Report
How Value Chains Can Share Value and Incentivise Land Use Practices
The research team was commissioned to write a paper on how value chains can better share value (economic, environmental, social and cultural) from consumer to…
Interactive Tool
Monitoring Freshwater Improvement Actions Webapp
These WebApp tools will help freshwater stewards and kaitiaki decide what to measure, where, when, with what technology, and understand how much it will cost.…
Technical Report
Next generation systems: a framework for prioritising innovation
There is increasing recognition that the land-based sectors will need new primary production systems to break the lock-step relationship between profitability and production, and environmental…
Journal Article
Agrivoltaics: Integrating Solar Energy Generation with Livestock Farming in the Canterbury Region of Aotearoa New Zealand (pre-print)
Agrivoltaics is the integration of agriculture and solar energy production and seeks to find synergies between the two to create a complementary system. With increased…
Journal Article
A review of the development and implementation of the critical source area concept: A reflection of Andrew Sharpley’s role in improving water quality
Critical source areas (CSAs) are small areas of a field, farm, or catchment that account for most contaminant loss by having both a high contaminant…
Technical Report
Ecosystem-based solutions for climate change adaptation in rural landscapes of NZ
This report describes ways that nature can support farm systems to adapt to a future under climate change. Pastures that are more diverse, for example,…
Guidance
Impacts of sediment on shortjaw kōkopu
This is one of a collection of 11 fact sheets bringing together existing scientific information on the impacts of sediment on freshwater and estuarine fish…
Infographic
Matatau Whenua Guidelines – Infographic
The Matatau Whenua Guidelines will assist whenua Māori landowners and decision-makers incorporate traditional Māori knowledge, or mātauranga, into land-use decision-making. The guidelines, are divided into…
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