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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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Worker Requirements Webinar
Labour shortages in the agrifood sector were highlighted when Covid-19 closed borders, but the underlying shortages go back further. For example, the conversion of sheep,…
Technical Report
Faecal source tracking to understand the role of introduced predators and avian species on water quality assessments in the Makiriri Reserve, Dannevirke
Escherichia coli are used as indicators of faecal contamination in water quality assessments, but ‘naturalised’ non-faecal E. coli and non-pathogenic E. coli-like bacteria can confound…
Journal Article
Navigating Institutional Challenges: Design to Enable Community Participation in Social Learning for Freshwater Planning
Social learning is a process suited to developing understanding and concerted action to tackle complex resource dilemmas, such as freshwater management. In practice, social learning…
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Our Land and Water Podcast Episode 3: What else can we grow here – and where?
Researchers in Our Land and Water have catalogued a wide range of land-use opportunities for Aotearoa that expand the possibilities you might have previously considered…
Technical Report
Kia Whakatōmuri te Haere Whakamua: Reimagining primary production based on traditional models of the past
This research paper identifies and discusses the key differences and commonalites of Pākehā and Māori societal structure, governance and cultural motivation, Western agricultural systems and…
Journal Article
Human Impacts Recorded in Chemical and Isotopic Fingerprints of Soils from Dunedin
We present results from the first urban chemical and isotopic soil baseline survey to be completed for a New Zealand city. The major, minor, trace…
Presentation
Sink or swim: A radical overhaul to water policy-making approach in NZ: A case study of lake Te Waihora
4th International water resources and wetlands conference, Tulcea, September 2018
Technical Report
Barriers to Environmental Change
Farming in New Zealand is changing. The environmental impacts of farming are presenting more interlinked challenges. The pressure is on farmers to shift from the…
Technical Report
Meeting the Needs of the Assurance Sector: Informing the Kaitiaki Intelligence Platform Design
This report outlines the environmental reporting data sought from Māori Agribusiness Collectives by regulators, industry, and sustainability assurance schemes in general. It identifies the types…
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