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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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Open-Access Evidence Base
This open-access evidence base neatly organises by issue links to 1500 international and domestic primary sources of information, vetted for relevance and credibility. It includes…
Journal Article
National-scale implementation of mandatory freshwater farm plans: A mechanism to deliver water quality improvement in productive catchments in NZ?
Reducing agriculturally derived diffuse contaminant losses (via non-point sources) from land to water has proven difficult for decades. Owing to the diversity and complexity of…
Guidance
Providing Healthy Food for Children in Schools in Aotearoa: Factsheet
This factsheet is for: local and national policymakers; people involved in food programme policy, development and creation; and food producers. It provides the following guidance…
Guidance
Data, Insights, and Tools Directory for Regional Councils
Quick reference guide to datasets, decision-making tools, and information from Our Land and Water, for planners, policy makers and land, water, and ecosystem managers in…
Journal Article
The Role of Relationships, Respect, and Self-determination in Creating Equitable Research Partnerships: The Case of Revitalise Te Taiao
Forming equitable research partnerships is a well-known challenge, particularly when some partners are indigenous and others have a colonizing heritage of exercising power over others.…
Journal Article
Estimation of Catchment Nutrient Loads in New Zealand Using Monthly Water Quality Monitoring Data
Causes of variation between nutrient loads estimated using alternative calculation methods and their repeatability were investigated using 20 years of daily flow and monthly concentration…
Video
What do we mean by ‘good farming’ with Peter Edwards and Daniel Eb
This podcast talks about a research project led by Peter Edwards (Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research), focusing on social license and perceptions of the ‘good farmer’.…
The Collaboration Lab
Determining the role of collaboration in transforming management of land and water
Video
Can Kānuka Increase Pasture Production in New Zealand Hill Country? Research Video
In this research video, we explore the results of Tom Mackay-Smith's PhD at Massey University, measuring the impact of spaced kānuka trees on pasture production,…
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