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Presentation

The missing link to better target on-farm practices to address water quality?

Public lecture, Lincoln University, September 2017
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Summary

Project Summary: Bananas on Northland Dairy Farms

This article summarises the results of a Rural Professionals Fund project that aimed to investigate whether growing bananas on Northland dairy farms has the potential…
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Journal Article

Supporting the design of useful and relevant holistic frameworks for land use opportunity assessment for indigenous people

Choices about how to use land are critical to efforts to manage water quality in Aotearoa-New Zealand. Māori and non-Māori communities need decision-making frameworks that…
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Interactive Tool

Pā to Plate

Pā to Plate is a web platform that connects hua (produce and resources) from ancestral lands with Māori who descend from those lands. Producers, growers…
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Guidance

Guide to Vision Mātauranga

The Guide to Vision Mātauranga was developed by the Rauika Māngai, an assembly of senior Māori representatives from across the National Science Challenges, for for…
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Video

Digital Toolshed: Data Supermarket webinar

This webinar was held at 12:30pm on 31 May 2023. It explains how to use the Data Supermarket platform, which is accessible at landuseopportunities.nz The…
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Guidance

Monitoring macroinvertebrates in rivers

Macroinvertebrates are animals that lack a backbone and, while small, are large enough to be seen with the naked eye. The freshwater environments they inhabit…
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Journal Article

Place-based diversification: Pathways to diversified shared landscapes in the Wairau Marlborough region of Aotearoa New Zealand

This study aims to explore the potential of place-based theory to contribute to land use diversification, particularly against the backdrop of prevailing climate change challenges.…
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Journal Article

The Land Resource Circle: Supporting land-use decision making with an ecosystem-service-based framework of soil functions

Land information has in the past focused on the key land and soil properties that physically or chemically support or limit the use of land.…
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