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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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The Food & Farming People’s Panel in Aotearoa New Zealand
Disconnected eaters and farmers under pressure. What’s happening to food & farming in Aotearoa New Zealand? To find out, a panel of everyday New Zealanders…
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Scale // The Value Chain Compass
In the research programme’s case studies of emerging value chains, scale was one of the key decisions that had to be made by the chain…
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Reflecting on the journey of environmental farm planning in NZ
Environmental farm planning in New Zealand dates to the 1950s when soil conversation plans were first undertaken. Since then the extent and complexity of whole…
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A copula-based analysis of severity-duration-frequency of droughts in six climatic regions of NZ
We used a copula to model the joint drought duration-severity distribution and frequency to generate SDF curves for six locations in different climatic regions (3…
Technical Report
From mountains to the sea: values and science for an informed kaitiaki/guardian – land
This project aimed to assess the impacts and implications of meeting contaminant reduction targets for estuaries on catchment land-use and management. The objectives were to:…
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Understanding signals influencing on-farm change
We developed a framework to identify external off-farm signals from farmers’ operating environment and internal on-farm signals that provide information about the farming system. We…
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Sediment phosphorus buffering in streams at baseflow: A meta-analysis
Phosphorus (P) pollution of surface waters remains a challenge for protecting and improving water quality. Central to the challenge is understanding what regulates P concentrations…
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Rethinking the Whenua Around our Cities Could Help Turn the Table on our Food Crisis
By making the fertile land surrounding our cities more sustainably productive, we can improve our food, housing and wellbeing all at the same time. As…
Where are we conducting our research?
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