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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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Guidance
Excluding stock from smaller streams
This factsheet is for farmers, industry bodies and regional authorities developing regional freshwater policy. Most of the contaminant load in waterways across New Zealand originates…
Shared Vision for Land Use in Marlborough
Place-based diversification: How can we develop pathways to transition to diversified shared landscapes?
Journal Article
Navigating Institutional Challenges: Design to Enable Community Participation in Social Learning for Freshwater Planning
Social learning is a process suited to developing understanding and concerted action to tackle complex resource dilemmas, such as freshwater management. In practice, social learning…
Guidance
Six Criteria for Selecting Fit-for-Purpose Indicators
For OLW research, there are six criteria that are the most important for ensuring indicators are useful. Fit-for-purpose indicators are: accepted by stakeholders, valid, clearly…
Journal Article
Managing diffuse phosphorus at the source versus at the sink
Judicious phosphorus (P) management is a global grand challenge and critical to achieving water quality objectives while maintaining food production. The management of point sources…
Interactive Tool
MitAgator
Built on a detailed farm map, MitAgator's software gives a spatial view of where contaminant losses are occurring and identifies critical source areas (CSAs). Targeting…
Journal Article
Does collaborative governance increase public confidence in water management? Survey evidence from NZ
Collaborative decision-making is widely understood as a democratic corrective to top-down forms of environmental management; it is a way in which citizens can contribute local…
Presentation
Reducing the reliance of New Zealand livestock systems on internationally produced feed
Presentation to NIPIM and farmers that gives an overview of: global grain production and New Zealand grain and feed production; imports of grain and feed…
Presentation
Peri-urban landscapes: Rethinking the land around cities for housing + food production
Slides from a webinar describing research on rethinking the land around cities for housing and food production.
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