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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
Consumer Insights and Willingness to Pay for Attributes: NZ Wine in California, USA
To achieve greater value in global markets, New Zealand can increase its understanding of our international customers’ demands for products from New Zealand’s land and…
Technical Report
SedNetNZ, SLUI and contaminant generation. Part 1: Sediment and water clarity
Horizons Regional Council asked Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research to document the use of SedNetNZ in the Horizons region; update the assessment of the impact…
Technical Report
Application of a revised SedNetNZ model to the Oreti and Aparima catchments, Southland
This report presents an application of a revised version of the SedNetNZ sediment budget model to the Oreti and Aparima catchments in Southland. We focused…
Journal Article
Trust, engagement, information and social licence – Insights from New Zealand
This research examines trust at the government, industry, community nexus, as mediated by media, and its effect on social licence to operate. Researchers attempted to…
Reasons for Water Quality Improvement
Investigating the reasons for decreasing phosphorus concentrations in many waterways
Video
Creating a Diverse and Sustainable Dairy Farming and Forestry Landscape (video)
This short video features Graham Smith, a Waikato dairy farmer whose farm played host to one of last year’s Rural Professionals Fund Projects. The project…
Journal Article
Assessment of excess N2 for quantifying actual denitrification in NZ groundwater systems
Denitrification in groundwaters is a key nitrate (NO3) attenuation process, where leached NO3 can be reduced to gaseous forms of nitrogen (N2). In this study,…
Technical Report
Co-Innovation Leads to High-Impact Indicators
This paper was commissioned by the Our Land and Water National Science Challenge to test the hypothesis: ‘Co-innovation leads to high impact indicators.’ The Challenge…
Video
A New Hill Country Vision
Verdantia Research is a company that spun out of a large body of research, including one Our Land and Water research project. This video shares…
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