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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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Technical Report
Retiring Farmland into Ngahere
The purpose of this report, fact sheet and information video is to introduce successful low-cost native planting methods which can be used as an educational…
Summary
Te Mana o te Wai Factsheet 5: Monitoring and Enforcement
The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide an introduction to Te Mana o Te Wai, its relationship to the National Objectives Framework, and…
Summary
Biodiversity Credits to Fund Land-Use Change on the Table
There is no universal solution to financing land-use change in Aotearoa, according to new research, but new devices like biodiversity credits show promise, as do…
Summary
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…
Technical Report
eDNA as a holistic measure of pastoral landscape effects on taonga species
Freshwater quality is measured with key indicators such as faecal indicator bacteria (E. coli), nitrates and phosphates. For communities, such indicators are vague and somewhat…
Technical Report
A Waka-Taurua social licence to operate framework
While not a blueprint for developing social licence to operate (SLO), the Waka-Taurua framework does serve as a guide to what information needs to be…
Presentation
Rewarding Sustainable Practices: Introducing the Value Chain Compass
Researchers from the Agribusiness & Economic Research Unit (AERU) were asked by Our Land & Water to investigate the role of value chains in rewarding…
Video
An Introduction to Agrivoltaics
An overview of agrivoltaics, combining food production with solar energy production. Featuring Jasper Kueppers, a renewable energy engineer at Infratec, farm consultant Anna Vaughan, Professor…
Video
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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