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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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Te Mana o te Wai Audit Tool
This audit tool has been developed to support councils and mana whenua to work together to assess how both sets of organisations are prepared for…
Journal Article
Reductive dissolution of phosphorus associated with iron oxides during saturation in an agricultural soil profile
In soils with a fragipan or poor permeability, water may remain in a soil profile long enough to make it anoxic and reductive. The reductive…
Technical Report
Next generation systems: a framework for prioritising innovation
There is increasing recognition that the land-based sectors will need new primary production systems to break the lock-step relationship between profitability and production, and environmental…
Technical Report
Composting Mootels on the West Coast
Dairy farming in New Zealand faces challenges. The industry’s social license to operate is being questioned as environmental and animal welfare standards tighten. Amid these…
Technical Report
Biological test of soil health using molecular techniques: Final report
During the feasibility stage of the project, we were able to identify suitable primers for the most common earthworms found within each earthworm ecological group…
Video
Te Kapa o Te Reureu: Keeping the Home Fires Burning
Te Matatini has ensured kapa haka is now a well-recognised form of national entertainment, but this has led to some debate about tradition and contemporaneity,…
Technical Report
Targets for sustainable and resilient agriculture (TSARA): a New Zealand perspective
Targets for sustainable and resilient agriculture (TSARA) is a European research programme investigating land uses and changes to land uses, and their potential to support…
Video
Drought: Farm Profits and Community Resilience
This webinar looked at the strong relationship between more intense future drought and drops in farm profit, and how we might identify vulnerable rural communities…
Guidance
Tools for Making Land Use Change Decisions (learning module)
Work through the activities in this kōwae (course) to learn how to help farm businesses to make decisions about land use diversification. You will learn:…
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