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Project Summary: Does Improved Water Quality Increase Milk Production?

This article summarises the results of a Rural Professionals Fund project that aimed to investigate if providing high-quality (town supply) water compared with unfiltered bore…
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Guidance

Impacts of sediment on tuna shortfin eel

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…
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The potential for phosphorus loss to groundwater from soils irrigated with dairy factory wastewater

Soils irrigated with phosphorus (P)-rich wastewater can increase the risk of P losses from land to water. We investigated if wastewater-irrigated soils can leach P…
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Technical Report

Tauututu: White Paper

This white paper explores the principle and practice of Tauutuutu. Tauutuutu is an indigenous concept that places an ethical obligation on communities and enterprises to…
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Journal Article

Resilience is a meaningful, measurable trait of communities

Community resilience can be quantified using available data to inform policy decisions. Identifying vulnerable or deprived communities in New Zealand is straightforward because social, cultural…
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Guidance

Monitoring nitrate in groundwater

Nitrate nitrogen is a stable form of nitrogen found in freshwater ecosystems; it is highly soluble and can be readily used by aquatic plants and…
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An event-based model of soil erosion and sediment transport at the catchment scale

Soil conservation over large areas is expensive and needs to be targeted to obtain maximum benefit for the least cost. In this paper, an event-based…
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Consumer Focus // The Value Compass

The price final consumers are willing to pay drives all value in the value chain. Hence, a value chain needs to understand how different groups…
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Technical Report

Regenerative Agriculture Value Proposition: Final report

The purpose of this project was to define the value proposition for regenerative agriculture in a sheep and beef context for New Zealand, using a…
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