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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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Helping Māori Businesses Move Up the Value Chain: Richard Jones and Poutama Trust

Read about the role of a Māori business development service provider and how Māori values such as manaakitanga and kaitiakitanga have a role to play…
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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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Guidance

Guidance for Catchment Groups to Develop Farm Plans

Printable 4-step plan for catchment groups to develop effective farm plans (PDF, 1 page). To make farm plans an effective tool for improving waterways, we…
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Journal Article

Interpreting practice: Producing practical wisdom from qualitative study of practitioner experience

This paper discusses methodological challenges in researching practice. The primary challenge arises from the view that practice is inextricable from its performance, and that performance…
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Integrated Impact Assessment (IIA) Framework Webinar

The Integrated Impact Assessment (IIA) Framework shows the impact of land use changes on economic, social, cultural and environmental indicators, allowing exploration of scenarios where…
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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…
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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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Journal Article

A Global Perspective on Phosphorus Management Decision Support in Agriculture: Lessons Learned and Future Directions

The evolution of phosphorus (P) management decision support tools and systems has been most strongly affected in developed regions by national strategies (i) to optimize…
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