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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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Interactive Tool
Beef in California, USA
Online tool to access and analyse results of a survey of beef consumers in California about their consumer behaviour, preferences, technology use, understanding of Māori…
Technical Report
Revitalising Te Taiao: How to co-design a place-based approach to support purposeful change and resilience
Aotearoa-New Zealand and international examples were reviewed by the project team with a range of criteria detailed to allow for an analysis of what were…
Video
Our Land and Water Podcast Episode 6: We can make progress – but we need to work together
Local community involvement is one of the keys to the long-term health of our rivers and lakes, and communities like catchment groups can play a…
Rural Professionals Fund 2023–24
There were 10 successful projects in the fourth and final funding round for the Our Land and Water Rural Professionals Fund.
Journal Article
Reflecting on the journey of environmental farm planning in NZ
Environmental farm planning in New Zealand dates to the 1950s when soil conversation plans were first undertaken. Since then the extent and complexity of whole…
Presentation
Rewarding Sustainable Practices: Introducing the Value Chain Compass
Researchers from the Agribusiness & Economic Research Unit (AERU) were asked by Our Land & Water to investigate the role of value chains in rewarding…
Journal Article
Soil hydraulic modelling outcomes with four parameterization methods: Comparing soil description and data inversion approaches
Different methods for parameterizing soil hydraulic models can lead to substantially varied predictions of soil–plant–atmosphere water fluxes. This study investigated, for a heterogeneous stony soil,…
Journal Article
Long-term atmospheric carbon dioxide enrichment decreases soil phosphorus availability in a grazed temperate pasture
Elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide (eCO2) associated with climate change increases plant production and soil nutrient transformations. However, changes in soil phosphorus (P) availability and dynamics…
Presentation
Mitigating the impacts of dairy farming on water quality – what have we achieved?
NZ Society of Soil Science, December 2018
Where are we conducting our research?
This interactive map shows the location of all our research projects to help connect you with the research happening in your catchment.
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