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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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Infographic
What is a value chain?
This infographic, produced by Our Land and Water for Angus magazine, shows information from producers moving along the value chain to consumers, and vice versa.
Journal Article
Guiding phosphorus stewardship for multiple ecosystems services
We propose a conceptual framework‚ the ‘phosphorus ecosystem services cascade' (PESC)‚ to integrate the key ecosystem processes and functions that moderate the relationship between P…
Guidance
Guidance for Catchment Groups to Develop Farm Plans
Printable 4-step plan for catchment groups to develop effective farm plans (PDF, 1 page). To make farm plans an effective tool for improving waterways, we…
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…
Technical Report
Interoperable Models for Land and Water: Framework selection and preliminary design (consultation draft)
Key objectives for this research include providing a nationally applicable system of models, in an open source interoperability framework, which draws on national datasets where…
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 –…
Journal Article
Transferring the impacts of pilot-scale studies to other scales: Understanding the role of non-biophysical factors using field-based irrigation studies
Researchers are challenged to design research that can generate credible claims regarding cross-scale impact and adoption. However, the context in which new knowledge or innovation…
Journal Article
Developing an indicator of productive potential to assess land use suitability in NZ
The Land Use Suitability (LUS) concept is composed of three indicators describing the inherent productive and economic potential of land parcels (productive potential), the contribution…
Journal Article
The Land Resource Circle: Supporting land-use decision making with an ecosystem-service-based framework of soil functions
Land information has in the past focused on the key land and soil properties that physically or chemically support or limit the use of land.…
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