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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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Land Use Opportunities
Developing a holistic decision-making framework for evaluating land use opportunities.
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Guidance
Designing Effective Farm Environment Plans
We have prepared a guidance document for people who need to design effective FEPs, FEP templates and processes. It proses a four-step approach and makes…
Guidance
Heartland Strong: How Rural New Zealand can Change and Thrive
This book, based on years of research, shows how, and provides useful insights into, the ongoing process of change in rural communities and the resources…
Journal Article
Quantifying contaminant losses to water from pastoral land uses in NZ II: The effects of some farm mitigation actions over the past two decades
In New Zealand the primary sector together with central and local government agencies have been promoting measures to mitigate the adverse effect of farming practices…
Guidance
Lessons from governing and managing community-led research
The Revitalise Te Taiao programme, a community-led research initiative, aimed to create lasting changes in land use, management, and market focus to regenerate the environment…
Journal Article
Rewarding Responsible Innovation when Consumers are Distant from Producers: Evidence from NZ
This paper examined the question of whether local producers can be rewarded for responsible innovation (for example, to improve sustainability of production) when the bulk…
Summary
Project Summary: Seeing, Understanding, Believing: A Farmer-Led Project into Waterway Improvement
This article summarises the results of a Rural Professionals Fund project that aimed to package practical methods for farmers to self-monitor waterway condition and ecological…
Journal Article
Balancing the Push and Pull factors of Land-Use Change: A New Zealand Case-Study
New Zealand is increasingly facing environmental and social challenges associated with its current land-use choices. There is therefore a drive to find ways to continue…
Trust and Social Licence
Investigating the importance of trust and approval by the community of the primary sector’s practices, and the connection to productivity and sustainable growth in New…
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