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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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Project Summary: What are the Best Sediment Traps for my Hill Country Stream?

This article summarises the results of a Rural Professionals Fund project that aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of three different sediment traps within the same…
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Testing indicators of resilience for rural communities

The resilience of rural communities is a concern, both in itself and for its effects on the agricultural sector. This article investigates the possibility of…
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Our Land and Water Podcast Series

Our Land and Water introduces insights from eight years of science in this podcast series. In each episode you will hear from the scientists and…
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Tukituki River and Te Mata Peak. Photo: Phillip Capper via Flickr

Synthesis Scenarios for Future Land Use

Steering land use change to meet water quality targets, through the synthesis of Our Land and Water research
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Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) for Land Use Diversification tool

This Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) tool was tested in a project with farmers in the Upper Taieri Wai catchment group, which identified alternative land uses…
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Timothy Firkin, videographer, films Alison Dewes, lead of the project Retiring Farmland Ngahere

Retiring Farmland into Ngahere

Restoring Aotearoa together: Triple the area, at one-third the cost
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Assessing the leaching of cadmium in an irrigated and grazed pasture soil

To decrease topsoil cadmium (Cd) concentrations we need to make inputs < outputs. Phosphorus fertiliser is the main input of Cd and leaching the main…
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Co-innovation and Integration and Implementation Sciences: Measuring their research impact – examination of five New Zealand primary sector case studies

The Primary Innovation programme investigated co-innovation to solve complex agricultural problems in five New Zealand primary sector projects. The projects engaged diverse stakeholders using a…
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