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Resources for
Catchment Groups
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Catchment groups can create thriving rural communities, safe havens for native fish and birds, and cleaner water for the next generation. These practical tools and resources can help your group work together to add diversity and tackle environmental challenges for your catchment and community.
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Interactive Tool
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…
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
Enhancing Farm Assurance – A White Paper
Assurance systems are one of the cornerstones of the New Zealand economy and agribusinesses – ensuring compliance with regulations, enabling international trade, ensuring safety of…
Method
Lower Cost Native Restoration of Farmland: Tīmata Method Fact Sheet
This six-page fact sheet on the Tīmata Method has been developed for New Zealand land owners. The Tīmata Method, which in Māori translates to begin,…
Video
Digital Toolshed: Data Supermarket webinar
This webinar was held at 12:30pm on 31 May 2023. It explains how to use the Data Supermarket platform, which is accessible at landuseopportunities.nz The…
Technical Report
Novel financing solutions for land use change
New financing options may help support land-use and land management changes. Environmentally beneficial changes that are also financially beneficial will likely secure funding through traditional…
Interactive Tool
Healthy Waterways Register
Healthy Waterways is New Zealand’s national database for recording and reporting the work being done for our waterways. Despite all the great work New Zealanders…
Technical Report
Signals for Land Stewards: Final Report
Signals are information from the environment that either enable or prevent a farmer from moving along a constructive change process, whether they are at the…
Technical Report
eDNA as a holistic measure of pastoral landscape effects on taonga species
Freshwater quality is measured with key indicators such as faecal indicator bacteria (E. coli), nitrates and phosphates. For communities, such indicators are vague and somewhat…
Technical Report
Systems Thinking for Future Farm System Design
A farming business is an example of a complex and integrated system. Integrated systems (such as those involving land, water, air and people) are good…
Infographic
Novel financing solutions for land use change (infographic)
This 2-page, A3 infographic gives an overview of findings, outlined in greater detail in the report, Novel financing solutions for land use change. The second…
Video
Healthy Waterways Register Webinar
The Healthy Waterways Land Management Actions Register is for all land holders, land managers, kaitiaki and catchment groups who sustainably manage their lands. This register…