Page Heading Our Land and Water was a National Science Challenge that ran from 2016 to 2024. Our research is helping the agri-food and fibre industry in Aotearoa navigate pathways…
Hyperspectral Imaging “One-third of all the food in the world is wasted, costing $1.2 trillion annually” Produce quality control still relies on people visually looking for contaminants or testing a…
Using green crops to provide the nitrogen (N) his organic vegetable crops need has been a huge success for Nelson market gardener Dominic Ferretti. A scientific trial just finished on…
Twenty new research projects have been funded by Our Land and Water (Toitu te Whenua, Toiora te Wai) following a contestable funding round. Five new research programmes will run until…
3,680 urban Kiwis visited 24 farms on Sunday March 12, part of New Zealand’s third national open farm day initiative Open Farms. Farms of all types participated in the nationwide…
How can landscapes for both people and production prosper within peri-urban Aotearoa through innovative spatial design, reconnecting New Zealanders with whenua and food?
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Free training for farm advisors Expand your expertise with evidence-based online courses on mitigation actions, effective communication, and land-use diversification. Management practices to improve water quality Help support farmers in…
The Next Generation Influencers (NGI) programme was devised as a capability-building programme for the future influencers of our land and water in New Zealand. NGI participants applied to take part…
Christine Finnigan jokes that her biggest contribution to a community project she initiated, centred around the Nguturoa Stream, was its name – Seeing, Understanding, Believing – but she says the…
What You Can Do On The Farm Even if your farm debt is high, you can take steps to change your farm system and management practices to become more resilient…
Researcher Liz Dooley admits to being sceptical about the utility of high-tech cow collars when she launched a project to help inform farmers’ decisions about whether to invest in the…