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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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Land Use Opportunities
Developing a holistic decision-making framework for evaluating land use opportunities.
This project has produced
Summary
Growing More Grain: Impacts & Opportunities for Dairy Farmers
New Zealand’s livestock sectors are reliant on imported grain and PKE. Recently completed research asks whether growing more grain in New Zealand is a viable…
Measuring Denitrification
The development of a method for measuring denitrification is a first for New Zealand, providing vital data for understanding natural denitrification processes
This project has produced
Technical Report
The viability, feasibility, and environmental effects from using New Zealand sourced phosphate
New Zealand has accessible, on-shore sources of phosphate, finds this report. There are known phosphate deposits in Clarendon, Otago (containing at least 1.6Mt of phosphate…
Interactive Tool
Forest Catchment Planner app
The Forestry Catchment Planner provides a comprehensive and intuitive platform for understanding plantation forestry harvesting cycles in a geospatial context within New Zealand's vulnerable landscapes.…
Journal Article
Nitrogen loads to New Zealand aquatic receiving environments: Comparison with regulatory criteria
There is concern about the deteriorating nutrient status of aquatic receiving environments in New Zealand. We estimated the amount by which current nitrogen (N) concentrations…
Technical Report
Protein Futures: Future Scenarios for Land-Use in Aotearoa New Zealand Synthesis Report
The Protein Future Scenarios project was designed to provide insight to the potential implications of alternative proteins (including plant-based, fermentation and cellular) for land use…
Guidance
Monitoring macroinvertebrates in rivers
Macroinvertebrates are animals that lack a backbone and, while small, are large enough to be seen with the naked eye. The freshwater environments they inhabit…
Journal Article
Indigenous entrepreneurship in Aotearoa New Zealand
This research is a contribution to theory and to indigenous community entrepreneurship in demonstrating what values and behaviours are assistive in confronting shocks, crises and…
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