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Andrii Medvediuk, 123RF
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Journal Article
Further concepts and approaches for enhancing food system resilience
The cornerstones to enhance food system resilience can be considered as three fundamental concepts, the ‘3Rs’: robustness, based on the capacity of the food system…
Journal Article
Viewpoint: Act local, effect global: Integrating farm plans to solve water quality and climate change problems
Local farm plans can be used to minimise the effect of food production on water quality and greenhouse gas emissions but must be integrated with…
Journal Article
Reference conditions and threshold values for nitrate-nitrogen in New Zealand groundwaters
Management of groundwater quality is assisted by an understanding of reference conditions, which describe the concentration ranges expected for key substances in the absence of…
Journal Article
Linking the uptake of best management practices on dairy farms to catchment water quality improvement over a 20-year period
Intensive land use, such as dairying, can impair water quality. Although many guidelines exist on how to mitigate the loss of dairy-associated contaminants from land…
Technical Report
Agrivoltaics: Integrating Solar Energy Generation with Livestock Farming in Canterbury
With increased interest in energy generation of utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) systems in Aotearoa New Zealand, agrivoltaics provides the opportunity to increase the productivity of…
Journal Article
Enhancing trust in farm assurance systems: a multistakeholder perspective
Farm assurance systems provide an infrastructure (standards and certification services) to ensure food safety, animal welfare and environmentally responsible practices at farms. Yet, farm assurance…
Technical Report
Wairoa River Bed Sediment
The Wairoa River carries large quantities of fine sediment (clays, silts and sands). This fine sediment cloaks both the bed and the banks of the…
Video
Digital Toolshed: LandscapeDNA (5 July 2023)
The LandscapeDNA information hub gives you access to interactive maps that allow you to explore land right down to property scale, and understand which contaminants…
Technical Report
Net export of E. coli from the Toenepi wetland cannot be explained by growth of naturalized E. coli in the water column
Runoff from agricultural land is recognized as an important source of contaminants—nitrogen, phosphorus, sediment and Escherichia coli—that impact water quality. Constructed wetlands have been promoted…
Summary
Consumers want NZ farmers to comply with regulations – better monitoring and transparency would help to build trust
Assurance systems such as freshwater monitoring are a cornerstone of New Zealand’s agribusiness. But these systems face growing challenges. Urban communities demand higher transparency and…
Journal Article
Survey of New Zealand consumer attitudes to consumption of meat and meat alternatives
This study examined consumers’ consumption, motivations, and concerns regarding meat and meat alternatives by means of an online survey of 1061 New Zealand consumers and…
Technical Report
Negotiating social licence to farm: what, where, and how
The objective of this research was to develop an inventory of ‘places and spaces’ within which social licence is negotiated (where), methods of negotiation (how),…