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Integrating Value Chains

Providing knowledge on how to construct global value chains that share increased value with New Zealand farmers and growers, and meet environmental expectations of consumers…
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TICI: a taxon-independent community index for eDNA-based ecological health assessment

Global biodiversity is declining at an ever-increasing rate. Yet effective policies to mitigate or reverse these declines require ecosystem condition data that are rarely available.…
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Sources And Flows

Sources and Flows

Managing contaminant pathways and attenuation to create headroom for productive land use.
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A copula-based analysis of severity-duration-frequency of droughts in six climatic regions of NZ

We used a copula to model the joint drought duration-severity distribution and frequency to generate SDF curves for six locations in different climatic regions (3…
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Quantifying Excess Nitrogen Loads in Fresh Water

At least 43% of New Zealand’s agricultural land (31% of New Zealand’s total land area) is in catchments that are under pressure (‘pressure’ meaning the…
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Community Perceptions of Collaborative Freshwater Planning: A survey in three NZ regions

Regional councils are trialling collaborative planning as a means of addressing New Zealand’s complex challenges in freshwater management. Collaborative freshwater planning processes are now underway…
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Modelling to identify direct risks for New Zealand agriculture due to climate change

Climate change will affect New Zealand’s diverse range of climatic systems in different ways. The impacts on agriculture are expected to vary with geographical location…
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Applications of the Soil, Plant and Rumen Microbiomes in Pastoral Agriculture

This paper was commissioned by Our Land and Water to test the hypothesis: ‘Significant additional gains in soil, plant, and animal productivity, coupled with reduced…
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Farming with the sun: Agrivoltaics from a farming perspective

Listen to an international panel of farmers, who have integrated agrivoltaics into their farming businesses, share their experiences and key learnings. The webinar concludes with…
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