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August 30, 2024
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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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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…
Signals for Land Stewards
Identifying the signals that influence farmers and growers when implementing environmental practice change
This project has produced
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Implications of water quality policy on land use: A case study of the approach in NZ
Achieving good water quality through output controls is difficult. The New Zealand Government recently proposed enforceable bottom lines to protect ecosystem health of 1 mg…
Synthesis Scenarios for Future Land Use
Steering land use change to meet water quality targets, through the synthesis of Our Land and Water research
This project has produced
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Summary: Soil Health in the Context of Regenerative Agriculture
There are studies or reviews of the impact of individual practices that are used in regenerative agriculture, but few studies on the impact of implementation…
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The ability to reduce soil legacy phosphorus at a country scale
The build-up of soil phosphorus (P) beyond plant requirements can lead to a long-term legacy of P losses that could impair surface water quality. Using…
Summary
Project Summary: Application of Remote Sensing in Spatial Irrigation Scheduling
This article summarises the results of a Rural Professionals Fund project that aimed to use the SWAN Systems platform, an automated water balance model, alongside…
Guidance
Mai te Rangi ki te Whenua, Mai te Whenua ki te Rangi
This literature review identifies 5 actions that support the wellbeing of land, water, and indigenous people from a uniquely Māori perspective. The actions are aimed…
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Forging future organizational leaders for sustainability science
Our Land and Water director Ken Taylor contributed to this paper in Nature Sustainability, with thinking influenced by the work of the Collaboration Lab. Leaders…
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