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Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) for Land Use Diversification tool

This Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) tool was tested in a project with farmers in the Upper Taieri Wai catchment group, which identified alternative land uses…
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Ngā Tai-o-Rongo

Revitalising ancestral knowledge systems to provide a pathway for Māori landowners to work with the environment, rather than on the environment.
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Optimising on-farm nitrogen management in the face of regulated fertiliser input

The key purpose of this project was to investigate how farmers had responded to the regulatory capping of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser at a maximum of…
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SedNetNZ, SLUI and contaminant generation. Part 1: Sediment and water clarity

Horizons Regional Council asked Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research to document the use of SedNetNZ in the Horizons region; update the assessment of the impact…
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Application of Physiographic Science to the Northland Region: Preliminary Hydrological and Redox Process-Attribute Layers

Water quality outcomes can vary spatially across the landscape, even when there are similar land use pressures. These differences are often the result of natural…
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A perspective on Te Ao Māori and regenerative agriculture – Tangata ahu whenua: nurturing our landscapes

This report provides an overview on te ao Māori (the Māori worldview) and regenerative agriculture. Although alignment has been suggested by many across all agricultural…
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Using eDNA to identify taonga species: Te Miro Farm case study

This research project aimed to enable farmers to see where wildlife and farmed animals are contributing to environmental DNA (eDNA), provide a method to detect…
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A strategy for optimizing catchment management actions to stressor–response relationships in freshwaters

Defining a receiving environment,-value-contaminant system and determining a specific stressor–response relationship for that system provide valuable decision support strategy to optimize management actions toward a…
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Summary: Can Regen Ag Promote Ecosystem-Based Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation?

Nature's contributions to adaptation are the ecological properties and functions which people can manage and govern to regulate risks from climate change (and related hazards)…
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