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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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Incentives // The Value Chain Compass

As the name suggests, a value chain involves a series of linkages between the producers at one end of the chain and the final consumers…
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Journal Article

Grid-based sediment tracing: A new method to determine sediment sources

This grid-based sediment tracing technique improves the precision of source contribution estimates and enhances the granularity of sediment source maps. We test the proposed technique…
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Technical Report

Water Quality Monitoring for Management of Diffuse Nitrate Pollution

Aotearoa New Zealand is making significant investment in national policy and standards, regional plan rules and on-farm actions to reduce the impact of intensive land…
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Method

A spatial analysis framework to assess responses of agricultural landscapes to climates and soils at regional scale

This chapter describes the structure, datasets and processing methods of a new spatial analysis framework to assess the response of agricultural landscapes to climates and…
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Journal Article

Land-use suitability is not an intrinsic property of a land parcel

Land-use choices should not be determined by potential productivity alone but should also account for environmental constraints and for land use elsewhere in the landscape.…
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Summary

How much nitrogen does asparagus need?

A project to develop a best practice guide for the use of nitrogen in asparagus crops in New Zealand was hampered by one of the…
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Project Summary: Measuring Real-Time Nitrogen Losses in Vegetable Production

This article summarises the results of a Rural Professionals Fund project that aimed to find an accurate way to measure the amount of nitrate leaching…
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Research Spurs New Silvopasture Business

The company Verdantia Research was founded in 2023, commercialising research that was tested in a project funded by Our Land and Water. This article was…
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