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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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Challenges and opportunities for land use transformation: Insights from the Central Plains Water Scheme in NZ
This paper considers the factors that are important to land managers in determining whether to change their land use system when the development of an…
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How farmers’ social licence to operate is being negotiated in statutory planning processes in the Waikato Region
This case study looks at Waikato dairy farmers' compliance with dairy effluent discharge consents. While other factors like methane emissions may also affect dairy farming’s…
Technical Report
Daffodil production for galanthamine
Galanthamine is a bioactive that has proven effect to reduce the effect of Alzheimer’s. A source of natural galanthamine is from daffodils, but only certain…
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A new robust hybrid model based on support vector machine and firefly meta-heuristic algorithm to predict pistachio yields and select effective soil variables
Pistachio production is an economically important crop that grows in arid environments. To predict yield and sustainably manage the use of natural resources such as…
Journal Article
Values-led management: the guidance of place-based values in environmental relationships of the past, present, and future.
The prevalence of widespread, human-caused ecological degradation suggests that fundamental change is needed in how societies interact with the environment. In this paper we argue…
Video
Drought: What to Grow and Where?
This webinar discussed the on-farm effects of projected changes in climate, such as a shift in pasture growth season, land use opportunities that might arise,…
Infographic
9 attributes of successful value chains
This graphic A3 poster summarises in plain language the nine attributes of successful value chains for New Zealand SMEs exporting products derived from NZ-grown food…
Technical Report
Consumer Insights and Willingness to Pay for Attributes: Kiwifruit in Shanghai
To achieve greater value in global markets, New Zealand can increase its understanding of our international customers' demands for products from New Zealand's land and…
Video
Creating a Diverse and Sustainable Dairy Farming and Forestry Landscape (video)
This short video features Graham Smith, a Waikato dairy farmer whose farm played host to one of last year's Rural Professionals Fund Projects. The project…
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