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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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Technical Report

Consumer Insights and Willingness to Pay for Attributes: NZ Beef Products in California, USA

To achieve greater value in global markets, New Zealand can increase its understanding of our international customers’ demands for products from New Zealand’s land and…
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Journal Article

Enabling a transformation to a bioeconomy in New Zealand

The 2009 OECD call for a global transition towards a bioeconomy has resulted in a number of nations adopting national or regional strategies to develop…
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Healthy Waterways Register

Healthy Waterways is New Zealand’s national database for recording and reporting the work being done for our waterways. Despite all the great work New Zealanders…
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Journal Article

Development and validation of a nation-scale framework to characterize the fate and transport of key agricultural contaminants

A hydrological framework encompassing nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and microbial (E. coli) transfer from land to water was developed to provide a consistent and rapid…
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Silvopastoral Systems

Silvopastoral Systems

Maximizing the benefits of integrating trees with livestock production for multifunctional rural landscapes in Aotearoa
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Perspectives on ‘regenerative outcomes’ and associated research needs: insights from consultation with participants in four sectors – arable, dairy, sheep & beef, and viticulture

This reports outlines the outcomes and research needed by representatives of four key New Zealand agricultural sectors (dairy, sheep and beef, arable, and viticulture). The…
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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…
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