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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

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.…
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Technical Report

Systems Thinking for Future Farm System Design

A farming business is an example of a complex and integrated system. Integrated systems (such as those involving land, water, air and people) are good…
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Consumer Insights and Willingness to Pay for Attributes: NZ Beef Products 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…
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Regenerative Agriculture Value Proposition: Final report

The purpose of this project was to define the value proposition for regenerative agriculture in a sheep and beef context for New Zealand, using a…
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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…
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Case Study: Ngāti Rangiwewehi

This is one of four mana whenua case studies that provide insights about addressing barriers and challenges they have experienced in freshwater management that could…
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Journal Article

A review of regulations and guidelines related to winter manure application

Winter manure application elevates nutrient losses and impairment of water quality compared to applications in other seasons. We reviewed worldwide mandatory regulations and voluntary guidelines…
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Rere ki Uta, Rere ki Tai: Research Insights

Respect for oneone (soil) as a basis of learning about land management effects on te taiao including people, air, water, and relationships with the natural…
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Technical Report

Determining the greenhouse gas reduction potential of regenerative agricultural practices

New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions are heavily influenced by agricultural activities, which account for 48% of total emissions. Most of these emissions come from methane…
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