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August 30, 2024
Resources for
Regional Authorities
Paul Sutherland
People in local government can help farms operate in ways that ensure the health of our land and water. Our resources can help you increase your local community’s understanding of the drivers for regulation, undertake effective collaboration, and improve decision-making in catchments.
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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…
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.…
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…
Journal Article
Integrated impact assessment for land and water management
Impact assessment considers the future consequences of current or proposed actions, but multiple impact assessment types and silos of expertise make integration difficult. When faced…
Technical Report
Water Quality Monitoring for Management of Diffuse Nitrate Pollution
Aotearoa New Zealand is making significant investment in national policy and standards, regional plan rules and on-farm actions to reduce the impact of intensive land…
Interactive Tool
Worker Requirements by Land Use
This dashboard estimates the number of full-time equivalent staff needed seasonally for different land-use scenarios. It can suggest complementary land uses to smooth out seasonal…
Interactive Tool
Labour and Land-use Regional Model for Aotearoa
The Labour and Land-use Regional Model for Aotearoa helps track labour availability and costs. Being aware of regional workforce capacity will contribute to understanding the suitability…
Video
Agrivoltaics opportunities in Aotearoa New Zealand
This video for rural landowners in New Zealand, particularly those on sheep and beef farmland, is to help raise awareness of the possibility of agrivoltaics…
Journal Article
Monitoring to detect changes in water quality to meet policy objectives
Detecting change in water quality is key to providing evidence of progress towards meeting water quality objectives. A key measure for detecting change is statistical…
Summary
More Investment in Water Quality Monitoring is Needed
Aotearoa will not know if our water quality is improving for another 20 years unless we make a large investment in our water quality monitoring…
Summary
Negotiating social licence to farm at Canterbury agricultural and pastoral shows
Agricultural and pastoral (A&P) shows are often depicted as a meeting point for town and country. The largest of these is the New Zealand Agricultural…