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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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Journal Article
The potential for potassium chloride fertiliser applications to leach cadmium from a grazed pasture soil
Cadmium (Cd) is a biotoxic element that can enter the human food chain via plants grown in Cd-enriched soil. Chloride (Cl) can solubilise Cd in…
Technical Report
Next generation systems: a framework for prioritising innovation
There is increasing recognition that the land-based sectors will need new primary production systems to break the lock-step relationship between profitability and production, and environmental…
Faecal Source Tracking
Identifying the sources of faecal contamination in waterways, and identifying naturalised Escherichia coli to help establish water quality for swimming
Presentation
Artificial proteins in Aotearoa New Zealand: Imagining futures for new technologies
The rapid growth of the cultivated meat industry; how cultivated meat protein is made, recent developments in the sector, and the view from Aotearoa New…
Journal Article
A copula-based analysis of severity-duration-frequency of droughts in six climatic regions of NZ
We used a copula to model the joint drought duration-severity distribution and frequency to generate SDF curves for six locations in different climatic regions (3…
Journal Article
Trusted storytellers as freshwater restoration knowledge brokers: individual and collective voices can both be effective
Aotearoa New Zealand's aquatic ecosystems are declining despite widespread awareness of mitigation needs. This study employs storytelling to address this issue, testing the role of…
Technical Report
Te Tiriti-led and mission-oriented: Assessing Phase 2 of Our Land and Water Toitū te Whenua, Toiora te Wai
We provide evidence to support that deliberately embedding the Te Taiao model helped those involved in OLW, researchers and non-researchers, Māori and non-Māori, conceptualise, legitimise…
Technical Report
Using Drone Technology for Environmental Compliance
This article looks at the views of farmers, rural professionals and regulators on drone use for environmental compliance purposes. It also discusses the benefits they…
Summary
The role of information in land-use decision making: the perspective of farmers in New Zealand
Information is important to support effective strategic land-use decision-making, particularly in response to changing markets, policy and climate. This research plays a part in understanding…
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