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Guidance

Analysing Trade-Offs in Land-Use Decision-Making

A free training course by Xiaoting Hou-Jones (IIED, UK) and Alan Renwick (Lincoln University, New Zealand). This virtual training aims to help researchers learn how…
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Journal Article

Meeting the Growing Need for Land-Water System Modelling to Assess Land Management Actions

Elevated contaminant levels and hydrological alterations resulting from land use are degrading aquatic ecosystems on a global scale. A range of land management actions may…
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Eutrophication and climate change impacts of a case study of NZ beef to the European market

Beef production in the Lake Taupō region of New Zealand is regulated for nitrogen (N) leaching. The objectives of this study were to 1) evaluate…
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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…
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The implications of lag times between nitrate leaching losses and riverine loads for water quality policy

Understanding the lag time between land management and impacts on riverine nitrate–nitrogen (N) loads is critical to understand when action to mitigate nitrate–N leaching losses…
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Introducing The Value Chain Compass

New research has revealed how New Zealand producers are creating higher returns from sustainably produced primary products. In some cases that premium is perceived to…
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Technical Report

Land Use Diversification Challenges and opportunities for three North Canterbury farmers

This project concentrated on the unique opportunity to assess three separate farm businesses and the proposed changes to their systems, illustrating the environmental impacts and…
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Drought: What Does the Future Look Like for Farmers and Growers?

This webinar covered recent drought projections for New Zealand to the end of this century, describing a wetter west and drier east (particularly in winter),…
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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…
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