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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
Climate change impacts on land use suitability
This report aims to assist land managers and natural resource planners to assess the resilience of agricultural land uses across New Zealand and to inform…
Summary
Panel on Catchment Groups Reveals a Key Tension
Our Land and Water held its final Symposium in Wellington in May 2024. During the Symposium, there was a discussion panel about catchment groups: Catchment…
Journal Article
Testing indicators of resilience for rural communities
The resilience of rural communities is a concern, both in itself and for its effects on the agricultural sector. This article investigates the possibility of…
Summary
Shelter from the storm
Composting shelters offer shade from the summer sun, and keep cows and staff warm and dry in winter while reducing pasture damage and nitrate leaching.…
Journal Article
Municipal composts reduce the transfer of Cd from soil to vegetables
Cadmium (Cd) is a non-essential trace element that accumulates in agricultural soils through the application of Cd-rich phosphate fertiliser. Vegetables can accumulate Cd to concentrations…
Journal Article
The Role of Relationships, Respect, and Self-determination in Creating Equitable Research Partnerships: The Case of Revitalise Te Taiao
Forming equitable research partnerships is a well-known challenge, particularly when some partners are indigenous and others have a colonizing heritage of exercising power over others.…
Journal Article
Evidence for the leaching of dissolved organic phosphorus to depth
Phosphorus (P) can leach from topsoil in inorganic and organic forms. While some evidence has shown inorganic P (orthophosphate) can leach to depth in some…
Summary
Online Tools Show Where Land-Use Change Needs to be Considered
We now know where land use needs to change, to meet New Zealand policy expectations for water quality. This article was prepared as an impact…
Journal Article
Let Nature be your teacher: Caring for agricultural landscapes through a sense of place
While the global agri-food system has fed a rapidly growing global population, industrialisation of agriculture is contributing to negative ecological and social outcomes. Strengthening humanity’s…
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