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Our objective, set by Government, is to enhance the production and productivity of New Zealand’s primary sector, while maintaining and improving the quality of the country’s land and water for future generations.
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Our strategy outlines Our Land and Water’s vision of a future in which catchments contain mosaics of land uses that are more resilient, healthy and prosperous than they are today.
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In the future, landscapes will contain mosaics of land use that are more resilient, healthy and prosperous than today.
Assessing Contaminants with Stream Order
Benign Denitrification in Groundwaters
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Connecting Soil and Water Quality
Crop Disease Under Climate Change
Faecal Source Tracking
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Innovative Agricultural Microbiomes
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Land Use Opportunities
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Linking Legacies to Wai
Mapping Freshwater Contaminants
Matarau: Empowering Māori Landowners in Land Use Decisions
Measuring Denitrification
Monitoring Freshwater Improvement Actions
Mosaic vs Monoculture Landscapes
Next Generation Systems
Pasture for Humans
Peri-Urban Potential
Phosphorus Best Practice
Physiographic Environments of New Zealand
Pohewa Pae Tawhiti
Protein Future Scenarios
Silvopastoral Systems
Sources and Flows
Visualising Forestry Harvesting Cycles
Incentives for Change
Ngā Poapoa Panoni
We want to reward New Zealand’s primary producers for producing high-value products in sustainable ways.
Aotearoa Food Cultures
Appropriate Use of Taonga Species
Credence Attributes On Farm
Early Māori Agricultural Entrepreneurship
EU Green Deal: Impact on NZ Exports
Eutrophication Product Footprinting
Impact of Imported Feed Shortages
Incentives for Data Sharing
Indicators Working Group
Integrating Value Chains
Kaitiaki Intelligence Platforms
Kuaha Matihiko: Digital Gateway
Measuring Full Impacts of Land-Use Change
New Models of Collective Responsibility
Options for Rural Investment
Reasons for Water Quality Improvement
Regenerative Agriculture
Register of Land Management Actions
Rewarding Sustainable Practices
Signals for Land Stewards
The Matrix of Drivers
Workforce Implications of Land-Use Change
The Value Project
We’re exploring how Aotearoa-New Zealand can generate greater returns from sustainable production.
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We are growing understanding of what it takes to transition to resilient, healthy and prosperous futures, and are developing tools to help.
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Predicting Agricultural Research Adoption
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Farming for Good is a research collection that explores our sense of connection with farming in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Pathways to Transition
Pine Forests will Take Over Farmland Unless Policy Changes are Made, Warns New Research
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Incentives for Change
More Trees, Fewer Sheep? Incentivising Change with the ETS
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Incentives for Change
What Will Change Farming in New Zealand? Agrifood Experts Rank the Issues, with Climate Change on Top
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Pathways to Transition
EDS Report Finds Economic Considerations Trump Environmental Needs in Policy-making
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Pathways to Transition
New Guidance for Implementing ‘Te Mana o te Wai’ Policy Priority
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Resilience Indicators Supported MPI's Rural Hubs Initiative
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How To Identify Sources of Faecal Contamination
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Future Landscapes
Nitrate Takes Less Than 5 Years to Travel from Farm to River, on Average
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Designing Effective Farm Environment Plans
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Informing National Environmental Standards on Winter Grazing
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Can Catchment Groups Foster an Ethic of Care for our Waterways?
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