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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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‘Summer safe' crops

We need ‘summer safe’ crops because increasing droughts and changing rainfall patterns mean pasture is no longer a reliable feed source in late summer to…
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Technical Report

The Case for a Novel Edible Nut Agroforestry System

This paper reviews the case for a novel agroforestry system in the Rotorua lakes catchments, based on an interest in trees that can produce edible…
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Powhiri: An indigenous example of collaboration from New Zealand

New Zealand co-conference to International Transdisciplinarity Conference, Germany.
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Consumer Focus // The Value Compass

The price final consumers are willing to pay drives all value in the value chain. Hence, a value chain needs to understand how different groups…
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Journal Article

Likely controls on dissolved reactive phosphorus concentrations in baseflow of an agricultural stream.

High baseflow phosphorus (P) concentrations increase the likelihood of periphyton blooms. Several physical and chemical factors can control baseflow P concentrations such as hydraulic exchange…
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Interactive Tool

Groundwater Detection Power Calculator

This GitHub package is designed to calculate the statistical power of detecting a change in groundwater/surface concentration depending on sampling duration, sampling frequency, ‘true’ receptor…
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Technical Report

How Value Chains Can Share Value and Incentivise Land Use Practices

The research team was commissioned to write a paper on how value chains can better share value (economic, environmental, social and cultural) from consumer to…
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Where are we conducting our research?

This interactive map shows the location of all our research projects to help connect you with the research happening in your catchment.

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