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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
The impact of policy on sustainable land use options in New Zealand
Do current national and regional policy frameworks discourage (or insufficiently encourage) change at the scale and diversity needed for the Our Land and Water National…
Guidance
Te Mahi Oneone Hua Parakore: A Māori Soil Sovereignty and Wellbeing Handbook
In te ao Māori, soil is taonga. It is also whanaunga – it holds ancestral connections and is the root of tūrangawaewae and whakapapa. It…
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Revitalise te Taiao website
This website brings together over two years of work within Revitalise te Taiao, a mātauranga-led, science-informed, taiao-inspired research programme dedicated to supporting community-led land management,…
Interactive Tool
Taking a look at the big picture
What are the relationships between soil quality and land value, land pressure on catchments, and water quality? Typically, soil quality monitoring has been used to…
Guidance
A Wai 262 Best Practice Guide for Science partnerships with Kaitiaki for Research Involving Taonga
This guide is to help scientists and researchers ensure they are informed and understand the complexities of the Wai 262 claim. This resource can help…
Summary
Project Summary: Impact of Regenerative Farming on Meat Quality
This article summarises the results of a Rural Professionals Fund project that aimed to compare the quality of meat from cattle of comparable age, sex…
Technical Report
Parameters for simple empirical catchment water quality models for simulating Escherichia coli in New Zealand rivers
E. coli is sampled at over 1000 long-term river water quality monitoring stations across New Zealand every month. Analyses associated with NPS-FM implementation commonly use…
Technical Report
Legumes for Our Land and Water
Using deferred grazing technology to increase the legume content of hill country pastures. Deferred grazing, which involves grazing exclusion from late spring until after seed-fall…
Guidance
How to Talk About the Future of Farming in Aotearoa New Zealand
This guide is to help people talk effectively about the future of farming, and land-use change in particular, to the general public and farming communities…
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