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Guidance

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…
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Monitoring E. coli in lakes and rivers

Escherichia coli (E. coli) is a common bacteria found in the digestive system of warm-blooded animals, including humans. Because E. coli can survive for a…
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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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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…
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Journal Article

An event-based model of soil erosion and sediment transport at the catchment scale

Soil conservation over large areas is expensive and needs to be targeted to obtain maximum benefit for the least cost. In this paper, an event-based…
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Guidance

Business Case Template for Establishing a Hapū Iwi Taiao Unit

This template Business Case is intended to support Iwi and Hapu who are grappling with how they can build or extend their Taiao functionality within…
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Summary

Taieri Land Use Diversification Opportunities

This website shares a variety of resources produced by a project working with farmers in the Upper Taieri Wai catchment group (Ranfurly, Central Otago) to…
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Composting Mootels in a West Coast Context: Summary for Farmers

This farmer-facing summary describes the experiences and considerations from three case study farms on the West Coast, that have introduced composting shelters to the farm.…
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Connecting Soil Water Quality

Connecting Soil and Water Quality

Linking soil quality and water quality to low and high N-pressure catchments
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