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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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…
Values-led management: the guidance of place-based values in environmental relationships of the past, present, and future.
The prevalence of widespread, human-caused ecological degradation suggests that fundamental change is needed in how societies interact with the environment. In this paper we argue…
Co-production of insights for place-based approaches to revitalise te taiao in Aotearoa New Zealand
Communities across Aotearoa New Zealand are collaborating to reverse ecological decline, but little attention has been given to understanding the deeper relationship required with our…
Systems Thinking for Future Farm System Design
A farming business is an example of a complex and integrated system. Integrated systems (such as those involving land, water, air and people) are good…
ADOPT
ADOPT (the Adoption & Diffusion Outcome Prediction Tool) is an online tool that predicts farmer uptake of new agricultural practices and innovations. It estimates time…
Indicators for the Future: Lessons from Next Generation Systems
The Indicators Working Group worked with Our Land and Water's Next Generation Systems (NGS) researchers to prioritise and evaluate indicators. NGS involves researchers working with…
Role of organic anions and phosphatase enzymes in phosphorus acquisition in the rhizosphere of legumes and grasses grown in a low phosphorus pasture soil
Rhizosphere processes play a critical role in phosphorus (P) acquisition by plants and microbes, especially under P-limited conditions. Here, we investigated the impacts of nutrient…
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