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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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Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) for Land Use Diversification tool
This Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) tool was tested in a project with farmers in the Upper Taieri Wai catchment group, which identified alternative land uses…
Technical Report
Emerging land use opportunities for collectively-owned Māori land: exploring cultural license to use indigenous organisms in high-value product development
This report describes findings from a project that explored tikanga-led good practice, cultural license, and appropriate benefit sharing approaches in working with indigenous organisms from…
Journal Article
Reducing Uncertainty of Groundwater Redox Condition Predictions at National Scale, for Decision Making and Policy
Understanding hydrogeochemical heterogeneity, associated with natural nitrate attenuation, is an integral part of implementing integrated land and water management on a regional or national scale.…
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…
Technical Report
Optimising on-farm nitrogen management in the face of regulated fertiliser input
The key purpose of this project was to investigate how farmers had responded to the regulatory capping of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser at a maximum of…
Technical Report
Farmer preferences and drivers of decision-making related to water quality actions and land use change in Tukituki
Farmer interviews and survey results indicate that farmers and growers in the Tukituki have demonstrated considerable commitment to enhancing water quality, with significant endeavours in…
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…
Journal Article
The efficacy of good practice to prevent long-term leaching losses of phosphorus from an irrigated dairy farm
We measured P fractions in leachate at 70cm depth from two soils of low-P sorption capacity in an intensively grazed dairy farm. In response to…
Technical Report
Efficacy of subsurface denitrification to attenuate nitrate in shallow groundwaters
Our preliminary results indicate occurrence of complete ‘benign’ denitrification in the reducing shallow groundwater sites with lower dissolved oxygen (DO) contents (DO < 1mg L-1),…
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