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Pohewa Pae Tawhiti (Visualising Horizons): a Māori holistic approach to the co-design of land-use systems

Exploring alternative land-uses, particularly alternatives to traditional productivist systems, is a key part of the transition towards sustainable future agricultural systems. However, decision-making around agricultural…
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Helping Māori Businesses Move Up the Value Chain: Richard Jones and Poutama Trust

Read about the role of a Māori business development service provider and how Māori values such as manaakitanga and kaitiakitanga have a role to play…
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Summer forage crops: Options for a drystock farm based on a Waikato case study

Options are required for drystock farmers to fill the summer feed gap. As part of the `Summer-safe multi-species cattle pasture’ project funded by the Our…
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Technical Report

Technologies and Audit Systems for Authenticating Food Trust

Collaborative value chains that effectively communicate credence attributes will help enhance New Zealand’s global reputation for sustainable and high quality primary products. This report describes…
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Reinterpreting the value chain in an indigenous community enterprise context

The purpose of this paper is to interpret values that may inform a new approach to considering value chains from New Zealand Māori kin community…
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Agronomic performance of summer forage crops on a Waikato dry-stock farm

Forage crops options are required by dry-stock farmers to fill summer feed gaps. This trial compared a brassica monoculture with simple and hyper-diverse mixtures containing…
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Summary: Determining GHG Reduction Potential Through Regenerative Agriculture

This infographic depicts the key processes contributing to greenhouse gas balance in agricultural systems with livestock, and outlines the proposed effects of regenerative agriculture and…
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Beyond meat and milk

Three scenarios show us how the rise of new proteins could radically change the future of farming in Aotearoa. This interactive summary for non-technical readers describes…
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Soil health research in the context of regenerative agriculture

Soil is increasingly considered a ‘common good’, like water and air. In Aotearoa New Zealand, we also need to consider principles integral to understanding soil…
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