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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
Novel financing solutions for land use change
New financing options may help support land-use and land management changes. Environmentally beneficial changes that are also financially beneficial will likely secure funding through traditional…
Journal Article
Measuring rural community resilience: Case studies in NZ and Vermont, USA
Methods for assessing community resilience have focused predominantly on disaster recovery. There is a need for quantitative measurement tools for assessing community resilience to slow-moving…
Technical Report
Composting Mootels on the West Coast
Dairy farming in New Zealand faces challenges. The industry's social license to operate is being questioned as environmental and animal welfare standards tighten. Amid these…
Journal Article
CLUES model calibration and its implications for estimating contaminant attenuation
Catchment water quality models are essential for freshwater management; however, their value is dependent on their performance and level of uncertainty. Here we present the…
Guidance
A practical guide for using green crops in New Zealand
This guidebook aims to make it easier for NZ farmers to use green crops more confidently and effectively. Doing so will improve nutrient creation and…
Video
Farming with the sun: Agrivoltaics from a farming perspective
Listen to an international panel of farmers, who have integrated agrivoltaics into their farming businesses, share their experiences and key learnings. The webinar concludes with…
Technical Report
School- and Community-Based Approaches to Healthy Eating and Food Security in Aotearoa New Zealand
To meet the varied dietary needs and preferences of Aotearoa New Zealand’s increasingly multicultural population, our agri-food sector needs to produce a range of affordable…
Technical Report
The development of an indicator framework to measure enablers and constraints on Māori agribusiness
This report outlines the process taken to map the specific constraints and enablers Māori agribusinesses face, and produce a set of indicators to measure these…
Journal Article
Nitrogen loads to New Zealand aquatic receiving environments: Comparison with regulatory criteria
There is concern about the deteriorating nutrient status of aquatic receiving environments in New Zealand. We estimated the amount by which current nitrogen (N) concentrations…
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