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Technical Report

Retiring Farmland into Ngahere

The purpose of this report, fact sheet and information video is to introduce successful low-cost native planting methods which can be used as an educational…
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Guidance

Te Mahi Oneone Hua Parakore: A Māori Soil Sovereignty and Wellbeing Handbook

In te ao Māori, soil is taonga. It is also whanaunga – it holds ancestral connections and is the root of tūrangawaewae and whakapapa. It…
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Physiographic Environments of NZ: An integrated landscape classification for understanding variation in water quality

New Zealand Soil Science Society Conference, December 2018
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Refinement of the Framework for Assessment of Recreational Water Quality

Regional and city council staff now have a documented process to follow when faecal contamination is identified in freshwater, created by ESR researchers involved in…
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Risk // The Value Chain Compass

All commercial enterprise involves a degree of risk. In the food and fibre sector, there are specific challenges related to the chain’s continuity of supply.…
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Technical Report

Kiwifruit leaf water content detection using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite technology: Final report

The outcomes of this work revealed the spatial and temporal variability of LWC over 6 monitored kiwifruit orchard blocks during a 5-month period. The research…
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Te Ao Māori Approaches to Farming Enable Effective Local Solutions

The systems-thinking, holistic approaches to farming in te ao Māori have been demonstrated to enable effective local solutions, leading the way for others. This article…
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Find Data platform

Find Data provides fast and efficient access to vital information on land and water data, tailored to serve the diverse needs of its users. Currently…
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Reducing the reliance of New Zealand livestock systems on internationally produced feed

Presentation to NIPIM and farmers that gives an overview of: global grain production and New Zealand grain and feed production; imports of grain and feed…
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