View Our Strategy Document 2019 – 2024
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.
Resource Finder
Use one, some or all the filters below to explore our resources, tools & research.
Know what you are looking for? Type below
Or, use our filtered search by selecting as little or as much as you like.
Showing 1 - 9 of 995 results
Video
Local food systems: Carlos Bagrie of Royalburn Station, Queenstown, NZ
Meet NZ food system innovator Carlos Bagrie, owner and farmer of Royalburn Station in Queenstown, New Zealand. Here they have their own on-farm micro/mobile abattoir…
Summary
If the climate is changing, will land use need to change?
The earth's surface has gradually been warming up since the beginning of the 20th century – by as much as 1C in some places. One…
Technical Report
Determining environmental intelligence needs of Māori Agribusiness Collectives (MACs) and iwi to inform the design of a Kaitiaki Intelligence Platform
Drawing on case studies and literature this report details the types of environmental data sought by Māori Agribusiness Collectives and iwi and the ways in…
Guidance
Six Criteria for Selecting Fit-for-Purpose Indicators
For OLW research, there are six criteria that are the most important for ensuring indicators are useful. Fit-for-purpose indicators are: accepted by stakeholders, valid, clearly…
Technical Report
Modelling impacts of agriculture on freshwater
In the last decade, the UNEP-SETAC working group (WULCA) established a framework to assess water consumption in life-cycle analysis, which was largely adopted by the…
Technical Report
Predicting Land-Based Nitrogen Loads and Attenuation in the Rangitikei River Catchment – the model development
We investigated and developed a simple model to account for the influence of different soil types and underlying geology on the transformation of nitrogen (N)…
Technical Report
What are the opportunities to reduce variability in apple tree productivity through targeted (sub-block) water and nutrient application?
Most of New Zealand's apple production occurs on soils which have formed from alluvial (river movement) deposits. These soils range from clays to sand, to…
Journal Article
Role of organic anions and phosphatase enzymes in phosphorus acquisition in the rhizosphere of legumes and grasses grown in a low phosphorus pasture soil
Rhizosphere processes play a critical role in phosphorus (P) acquisition by plants and microbes, especially under P-limited conditions. Here, we investigated the impacts of nutrient…
Interactive Tool
Open-Access Evidence Base
This open-access evidence base neatly organises by issue links to 1500 international and domestic primary sources of information, vetted for relevance and credibility. It includes…
Where are we conducting our research?
This interactive map shows the location of all our research projects to help connect you with the research happening in your catchment.
Hover over regions and click to see key information about the projects.
Our Key Collaborators
