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Primary Industry Bodies
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People in primary sector support bodies provide important direction to land managers, helping ensure that practices evolve in response to new evidence. These resources can help you develop best practices and guidance for farm management, based on impartial and robust evidence.
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Journal Article
Understanding signals influencing on-farm change
We developed a framework to identify external off-farm signals from farmers’ operating environment and internal on-farm signals that provide information about the farming system. We…
Technical Report
Optimising on-farm nitrogen management in the face of regulated fertiliser input
The key purpose of this project was to investigate how farmers had responded to the regulatory capping of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser at a maximum of…
Technical Report
Strip-till Fodder Beet to Improve Land and Water Outcomes
Fodder beet is an important crop for wintering in New Zealand farming systems. It keeps well through winter providing a high dry matter feed. However,…
Video
Monitoring Freshwater Improvement Actions webinar
This webinar explains an interactive WebApp that helps detect improvements in rivers, lakes and groundwater, and helps select appropriate monitoring technologies that enable early detection…
Interactive Tool
Monitoring Freshwater Improvement Actions Webapp
These WebApp tools will help freshwater stewards and kaitiaki decide what to measure, where, when, with what technology, and understand how much it will cost.…
Presentation
Artificial proteins in Aotearoa New Zealand: Imagining futures for new technologies
The rapid growth of the cultivated meat industry; how cultivated meat protein is made, recent developments in the sector, and the view from Aotearoa New…
Presentation
Emerging Proteins: Threat or Opportunity for Māori?
What are the opportunities from a shift to any of the viable options for plant-based protein, to address social, environmental, cultural, and economic issues associated…
Presentation
The Fairies at the Bottom of the Lab: or Aotearoa New Zealand Food Industry Imaginaries of a Cellular-Agriculture Future
Defining cellular agriculture. The aim of the research project. A growing sociotechnical network. Premium-scape, multi-scape or STEM-scape? Presented at the AgriFood Conference 2023 in Tasmania,…
Infographic
Protein future scenarios: Infographics
Three infographics depict the environmental, economic, and selected regional outcomes of four scenarios based on different rates of technological advancement for the main alternative protein…
Guidance
11 Insights to Co-design Place-based Approaches to Purposeful Change and Resilience
In 2020, a group of 25 individuals from agribusiness, community, government, and industry came together to draw from te ao Māori and te ao Pākehā…
Technical Report
Multilateral Data Sharing: Lessons from a case study with organisations managing beef genetics data
Multilateral data sharing (MLDS) is a long-held goal of many organisations in New Zealand’s food and fibre industries. It is also an efficient way to…
Journal Article
Building social licence to operate: A framework for gaining and maintaining meaningful, trustworthy relationships
Social licence to operate (SLO) is increasingly seen as important by organisations globally. However, despite its increasing usage, the meaning and application of SLO are…