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Technical Report

Local Grain Economy: Pathways to Transition Framework

Aotearoa has the capacity to supply much more milling wheat to New Zealand eaters, but growing a local grain economy requires fundamental investment or support…
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Timothy Firkin, videographer, films Alison Dewes, lead of the project Retiring Farmland Ngahere

Retiring Farmland into Ngahere

Restoring Aotearoa together: Triple the area, at one-third the cost
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Bananas on Northland dairy farms: An option for forage supply and effluent cycling?

This project investigated if growing bananas on Northland dairy farms has potential to increase the economic and environmental sustainability of the dairy enterprise, by: •…
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Catchment And Community Environment Groups In Aotearoa New Zealand: Goals, Activities And Needs

The Ministry for the Environment contracted the Cawthron Institute to survey catchment and community environment groups about how they are organised, what they are doing,…
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Incorporating Māori values into land management decision tools

Environmental sustainability and the long-term wellbeing of Māori (the indigenous people of New Zealand) are interdependent and degradation of landscapes risks the progressive degradation of…
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Impacts of sediment on pātiki mohoao – black flounder

This is one of a collection of 11 fact sheets bringing together existing scientific information on the impacts of sediment on freshwater and estuarine fish…
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More diverse, resilient, healthy landscapes by 2030 – webinar

Farmers, growers and all those who care for our land want to help build a resilient, healthy and thriving agri-food and fibre system. The role…
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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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New test for biological soil health

A quick way to assess the biological health of soil has been developed using molecular techniques to measure earthworm activity, but this needs more work…
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