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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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Guidance
How to Talk About the Future of Farming in Aotearoa New Zealand
This guide is to help people talk effectively about the future of farming, and land-use change in particular, to the general public and farming communities…
Journal Article
Trusting in the ‘Eye in the Sky’? Farmers’ and Auditors’ Perceptions of Drone Use in Environmental Auditing
Worldwide, the agricultural sector is under pressure to demonstrate environmental sustainability. In New Zealand, farm environment plans (FEPs) and their auditing were intended to guide…
Video
Revitalise Te Taiao seminar: Whenua, Life, Values
Dr John Reid was a special guest speaker at the Revitalise te Taiao seminar recently held in Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington). Dr Reid presented on the…
Infographic
Sustainability through farmer-citizen connection
Urban visitors and host farmers share a similar vision of sustainable farming, and urban visitors see direct-from-farmer food purchasing as their most impactful sustainable action.…
Presentation
A Source-to-sink Contaminant Risk Framework To Support Water Quality Policy Across Scales
In the wrong place, or at excessive concentrations, nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus) and sediment become contaminants. Along with pathogens, they require reduction to improve water…
Technical Report
Farm Certification Scheme Baseline Survey, 2020
Participating in farm certification schemes can be frustrating for farmers but does lead to improvements on-farm, according to a recent survey by the Our Land…
Technical Report
The Case for a Novel Edible Nut Agroforestry System
This paper reviews the case for a novel agroforestry system in the Rotorua lakes catchments, based on an interest in trees that can produce edible…
Guidance
Make your stream monitoring data count! A national quality assurance framework for community-based monitoring in Aotearoa New Zealand
This national quality assurance framework will support community and CBM groups to collect freshwater data of a known quality that are ‘fit for purpose’. The…
Technical Report
Creating a diverse and sustainable dairy farming and forestry landscape
Analysis of the results and discussion indicates that our hypothesis did not eventuate. There was not the increase in pasture production in the ‘shade’ environment…
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