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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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Technical Report
Enabling Te Mana o Te Wai with Cultural Health Assessment Tools
In 2020, Poipoia embarked on research funded by Our Land and Water National Science Challenge with the primary aim of exploring the application of how…
Journal Article
Optimising sampling frequency for change detection of variables in lake monitoring programs
Optimized sampling regime can match restoration timeline with improvements in water quality. Duration and frequency of the optimized sampling regime affect operational monitoring costs. Detecting…
Summary
Nitrogen and phosphorus modelled in freshwater eutrophication: The director’s cut
Most Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) methods to date estimate freshwater eutrophication impacts from phosphorus (P) only. There is a need to account for the…
Summary
Our Land and Water National Science Challenge Lifetime Narrative
The Our Land and Water (Toitū te Whenua, Toiora te Wai) National Science Challenge (OLW) has worked towards an agri-food and -fibre system that enhances…
Presentation
From Value-Added to Values-Added: Storying Kaupapa Māori Land & Water Food Relations
This presentation gives an overview of the Storying Kaitiaktanga project and presents preliminary findings and quotes from participants.
Guidance
Social Licence to Farm and ‘Good Farming’: Farmer and Public Expectations
This factsheet brings together material from the public and farmer surveys, exploring the similarities and differences between farmers’ and the public’s understanding of what is…
Summary
Mātauranga Māori Wānanga Overview Report
Che Wilson convened wānanga gathering whānau from around the motu to create a space to discuss and further extend our understanding of the whakapapa and…
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.…
Technical Report
Te Rito Hāpori: Integrating Medicinal Cannabis Outdoor Cropping Within Established Farming Operations in Southland
As an emerging option for farmers, commercial outdoor growing of medicinal cannabis remains a relatively new and somewhat untested endeavour, particularly in the Otago-Southland region.…
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