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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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Our Land and Water Podcast Episode 3: What else can we grow here – and where?
Researchers in Our Land and Water have catalogued a wide range of land-use opportunities for Aotearoa that expand the possibilities you might have previously considered…
Workforce Implications of Land-Use Change
Investigating workforce as a constraint on land-use changes
This project has produced
Journal Article
Phosphorus transport in subsurface flow from a stony soil under irrigated and non-irrigated lucerne
The extent of phosphorus (P) loss from soils under deep-rooting crops such as lucerne is currently unknown. This study used large lysimeters (2.0 by 1.5…
Summary
Future scenarios for arable agriculture
Food security, tackling climate change through emissions reduction, and developing alternative proteins in New Zealand are three threads that were explored by the Future Scenarios…
Technical Report
Pasture For Humans
Protein harvesting from pasture has the potential to provide Aotearoa farmers with alternate land-use choice. For the farmer, the inclusion of protein harvesting has the…
Technical Report
The Case for a Novel Edible Nut Agroforestry System
This paper reviews the case for a novel agroforestry system in the Rotorua lakes catchments, based on an interest in trees that can produce edible…
Journal Article
Quantifying contaminant losses to water from pastoral land uses in NZ III: What could be achieved by 2035?
To meet the water quality outcomes sought by catchment communities and regulators, the losses of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and sediment from dairy and sheep/beef…
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Helping Māori Businesses Move Up the Value Chain: Richard Jones and Poutama Trust
Read about the role of a Māori business development service provider and how Māori values such as manaakitanga and kaitiakitanga have a role to play…
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What do we mean by ‘good farming’ with Peter Edwards and Daniel Eb
This podcast talks about a research project led by Peter Edwards (Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research), focusing on social license and perceptions of the ‘good farmer’.…
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