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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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Technical Report
Wairoa River Bed Sediment
The Wairoa River carries large quantities of fine sediment (clays, silts and sands). This fine sediment cloaks both the bed and the banks of the…
Journal Article
A Proposed New Approach to Identify Limiting Factors in Assessing Land Suitability for Sustainable Land Management
Making optimal use of scarce resources in developing countries is a major challenge for sustainable crop production. Characterization of factors limiting crop production is an…
Summary
Project Summary: Seeing, Understanding, Believing: A Farmer-Led Project into Waterway Improvement
This article summarises the results of a Rural Professionals Fund project that aimed to package practical methods for farmers to self-monitor waterway condition and ecological…
Infographic
Summary: Can Regen Ag Promote Ecosystem-Based Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation?
Nature’s contributions to adaptation are the ecological properties and functions which people can manage and govern to regulate risks from climate change (and related hazards)…
Journal Article
Farm-scale carbon and nitrogen fluxes in pastoral dairy production systems using different nitrogen fertilizer regimes
The nitrogen (N) fertilizer application rate (kg ha/1 year) in pastoral dairy systems affects the flow of N through the soil, plant and animal pools…
Video
Our Land and Water Podcast Episode 8: How do we feed Kiwi families and communities?
We grow more food than we need in Aotearoa and yet many people are going hungry. So how do we connect production and distribution to…
Infographic
Summary: Overseas Market Potential for NZ Regenerative Agriculture
A 1-page visual summary of a suggested approach to identify the market potential for New Zealand’s ‘regenerative’ practice.
Journal Article
The potential for potassium chloride fertiliser applications to leach cadmium from a grazed pasture soil
Cadmium (Cd) is a biotoxic element that can enter the human food chain via plants grown in Cd-enriched soil. Chloride (Cl) can solubilise Cd in…
Journal Article
Further concepts and approaches for enhancing food system resilience
The cornerstones to enhance food system resilience can be considered as three fundamental concepts, the ‘3Rs’: robustness, based on the capacity of the food system…
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