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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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OANZ Webinar: EU Green Deal Impact on NZ’s Land-based Primary Producers
OANZ CEO Tiffany Tompkins and board member Alistair Schorn present the findings from their recent research paper funded by Our Land Our Water National Science…
Guidance
Towards a Physiographic Map: Information for Regional Councils
Physiographic Environments of New Zealand research is developing a cost-effective technique to measure and map (as an integrated physiographic layer) how features of the natural…
Journal Article
Navigating Institutional Challenges: Design to Enable Community Participation in Social Learning for Freshwater Planning
Social learning is a process suited to developing understanding and concerted action to tackle complex resource dilemmas, such as freshwater management. In practice, social learning…
Guidance
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,…
Technical Report
Shifting from land-use capability to land-use suitability
The LUS classification system will be based on concatenation of three categories: land-use potential, contribution to catchment contaminant delivery, and pressure in receiving environments (Fig.…
Journal Article
TICI: a taxon-independent community index for eDNA-based ecological health assessment
Global biodiversity is declining at an ever-increasing rate. Yet effective policies to mitigate or reverse these declines require ecosystem condition data that are rarely available.…
Summary
Creating Value for New Zealand Agri-food Exports: Moving from supply chains to value chains
This Research Briefing presents results of research that identifies nine key elements of successful agri-food value chains from New Zealand. The research team worked with…
Journal Article
The impact of cattle grazing and treading on soil properties and the transport of phosphorus, sediment and E. coli in surface runoff from grazed pasture
Contaminant loss from grazed pasture can negatively affect freshwater quality. There is, however, little data on the impact of different levels of grazing/treading on contaminant…
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…
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