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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
New Zealand's monitoring frameworks for agricultural sustainability and assurance
This report looks at some industry sustainability assurance and monitoring schemes – including organic certification, Sustainable Wine NZ, and New Zealand Good Agricultural Practice –…
Summary
Is regen ag the silver bullet for farming woes?
Regenerative Agriculture has been proposed as a solution not only for transforming on-farm processes, but as a driver of change for the global food system,…
Infographic
The denitrification process
Denitrification is a natural process that reduces the amount of nitrate entering rivers and other freshwater bodies. In some groundwater systems, microorganisms turn nitrate into…
Technical Report
Governing Value Creation and Capture in NZ Agribusiness Value Chains: A Case Study
This research investigates five case studies of New Zealand global value chains to identify those value chain attributes important to return value to the producer.…
Journal Article
The mitigation of phosphorus losses from a water repellent soil used for grazed dairy farming
Soil water repellency (SWR) decreases the infiltration rate of soil, increasing the potential for surface runoff in response to rainfall (Bauters et al., 2000). The…
Journal Article
Applications of the Soil, Plant and Rumen Microbiomes in Pastoral Agriculture
This paper was commissioned by Our Land and Water to test the hypothesis: ‘Significant additional gains in soil, plant, and animal productivity, coupled with reduced…
Journal Article
Projected wine grape cultivar shifts due to climate change in New Zealand
Climate change has already been affecting the regional suitability of grapevines. This has significant implications for New Zealand. We modeled key crop phenological stages to…
Video
Local food systems: Glen Herud of Happy Cow Milk in Christchurch, NZ
Meet NZ food system innovator Glen Herud of Happy Cow Milk Company based in Christchurch, New Zealand. The creator of an on-farm pasteurisation or milk…
Presentation
Development of Next Generation Farming Systems using a Multi-Criteria Decision-Making framework
Land Use and Water Quality Agriculture and the Environment, June 2019, Denmark
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