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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 Value Project: How Can Aotearoa New Zealand Generate Greater Returns from Sustainable Production?

New Zealand is great at producing food. And we're getting better at doing it sustainably. So how can we capture that value and be rewarded…
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Growing Kai Under Increasing Dry: Adapting to Increasing Drought

Advice to central and regional government, industry bodies, and the research, science and innovation community on what is needed to better support primary sector adaptation…
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Urban Rural Partnerships

Urban-Rural Partnerships for Equal Change

Partnering for change: A shared-responsibility approach to environmental change
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The longevity of cultivation in decreasing the potential for phosphorus loss in runoff

Phosphorus (P) loss from highly fertilised grazed pastures can impair surface water quality. High P concentrations in grazed pastures are maintained to boost legume production,…
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Kuaha Matihiko: Digital Gateway final report

The Kuaha Matihiko: Digital Gateway project identified the urgent need for an integrated and user-friendly centralised gateway that provides easy access to all the critical…
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Future Proteins: Risk or opportunity for Māori agribusiness?

Agriculture is woven into Aotearoa New Zealand’s national identity. A future that embraces alternative methods of accessing proteins has the potential for significant disruption at…
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Delineating the interaction of Escherichia species with freshwater pathogens and land-use

A project to add value to Ministry for the Environment’s Freshwater Pathogen QMRA study found that low numbers of E. coli phylotype B1 and a…
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Meat insights: Uruguayan consumers' mental associations and motives underlying consumption changes

A telephone survey (n = 601) was conducted in Uruguay to explore participants' mental associations with meat and the underlying reasons changes in the quantity…
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Trusting in the ‘Eye in the Sky'? Farmers' and Auditors' Perceptions of Drone Use in Environmental Auditing

Worldwide, the agricultural sector is under pressure to demonstrate environmental sustainability. In New Zealand, farm environment plans (FEPs) and their auditing were intended to guide…
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