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Further concepts and approaches for enhancing food system resilience

The cornerstones to enhance food system resilience can be considered as three fundamental concepts, the ‘3Rs’: robustness, based on the capacity of the food system…
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The Tīmata Method: A low-cost way to retire farmland into native forest

Restoring erodible land in New Zealand into native forests can be a challenging and costly process, limiting private landowners' participation in large-scale projects. However, there…
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Monitoring total phosphorus in lakes

Phosphorus is an essential nutrient for the growth and development of plants and animals. However, elevated phosphorus concentrations in a lake can lead to eutrophication,…
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Factors controlling shallow subsurface dissolved reactive phosphorus concentration and loss kinetics from poorly drained saturated grassland soils

Shallow subsurface pathways dominate dissolved reactive phosphorus (DRP) losses in grassland soils that are: poorly drained, shallow, or have a perched water table in wetter…
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Growing for Good: A ‘Win-Win-Win’ Plan for Future Food Production

Changing what we farm, and where, could provide all New Zealanders with a healthy diet with benefits to our water, climate, and the national economy,…
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Governance of market-oriented fresh food value chains: Export chains from NZ

This study explored how the governance of a global food value chain can facilitate the value chain's market orientation towards the values of final consumers.…
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Measuring real time nitrate leaching from a tile drained Hawkes Bay onion field: Final report

The data showed a strong linear relationship between the N concentration measured by the sensor and in the grab sample (sensor N concentration = 1.09…
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