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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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Journal Article
Seventy years of data from the world’s longest grazed and irrigated pasture trials
Pastures are the most widespread land use, globally. The Winchmore trials were established in 1948–1949 in Canterbury, New Zealand and examined either different rates of…
Journal Article
Assessing research impact potential: Using the transdisciplinary Outcome Spaces Framework with NZ’s National Science Challenges
Calls for science to have impact as well as excellence have been loud and clear from research funders, policymakers and research institutions for some time.…
Presentation
Mitigating the impacts of dairy farming on water quality – what have we achieved?
NZ Society of Soil Science, December 2018
Video
Product Quality // The Value Chain Compass
Consumers pay a premium for a product only if they value it as a quality product. Quality begins with characteristics such as appearance, taste and…
Technical Report
Indicators of Collective Responsibility by Catchment Groups
This report makes some general observations about the process of developing indicators and then offers some suggested indicators for catchment groups and for support organisations.…
Technical Report
Consumer Insights and Willingness to Pay for Attributes: NZ Wine 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…
Journal Article
Quantifying contaminant losses to water from pastoral land uses in NZ III: What could be achieved by 2035?
To meet the water quality outcomes sought by catchment communities and regulators, the losses of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and sediment from dairy and sheep/beef…
Journal Article
Mitigation of phosphorus, sediment and Escherichia coli losses in runoff from a dairy farm roadway
Dairy cow deposits on farm roadways are a potential source of contaminants entering streams. Phosphorus (P), suspended sediment (SS) and Escherichia coli (E. coli) loads…
Presentation
Adaptation of water eutrophication indicators for EU environmental footprinting of NZ products
To address impacts on freshwater eutrophication, it is paramount that both N and P are accounted for. The current recommendation from the EC for Product…
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