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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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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…
Technical Report
Predicting Land-Based Nitrogen loads and Attenuation in the Rangitikei River Catchment – the Implications for Land Use
Where both the intensity of land use in high N-attenuation areas was increased and the intensity of land use in low N-attenuation areas was decreased,…
Journal Article
The potential for potassium chloride fertiliser applications to leach cadmium from a grazed pasture soil
Cadmium (Cd) is a biotoxic element that can enter the human food chain via plants grown in Cd-enriched soil. Chloride (Cl) can solubilise Cd in…
Video
Webinar: Where next for catchment groups?
In this webinar, Jim Sinner, manager of social science at Cawthron Institute, presents findings from research on how catchment groups can be supported and encouraged…
Technical Report
Creating a diverse and sustainable dairy farming and forestry landscape
Analysis of the results and discussion indicates that our hypothesis did not eventuate. There was not the increase in pasture production in the ‘shade’ environment…
Method
Refinement of the Framework for Assessment of Recreational Water Quality
Regional and city council staff now have a documented process to follow when faecal contamination is identified in freshwater, created by ESR researchers involved in…
Technical Report
The Case for a Novel Edible Nut Agroforestry System
This paper reviews the case for a novel agroforestry system in the Rotorua lakes catchments, based on an interest in trees that can produce edible…
Technical Report
Consumer Insights and Willingness to Pay for Attributes: NZ Wine in California, USA
To achieve greater value in global markets, New Zealand can increase its understanding of our international customers’ demands for products from New Zealand’s land and…
Technical Report
Measuring actual denitrification to understand nitrogen loads through aquifers
Ne is an inert, soluble, gas which is present in air and has been used in international studies to understand recharge conditions. The aim of…
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