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Farm Environment Plans
Ministry for the Environment
Every farm in Aotearoa is required to have a Farm Environment Plan (FEP) for freshwater quality improvement. These resources can help design effective FEPs, FEP templates and processes that will contribute to freshwater improvements at the catchment level.
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Perception of Drone Use in Environmental Management
Can drones be used to efficiently demonstrate environmental compliance and thus ecological sustainability? This short video describes research that investigated the perceptions of farmers and…
Journal Article
Trusting in the’Eye in the Sky’? Farmers’ and Auditors’ Perceptions of Drone Use in Environmental Auditing
Worldwide, the agricultural sector is under pressure to demonstrate environmental sustainability. In New Zealand, farm environment plans (FEPs) and their auditing were intended to guide…
Summary
Project Summary: Seeing, Understanding, Believing: A Farmer-Led Project into Waterway Improvement
This article summarises the results of a Rural Professionals Fund project that aimed to package practical methods for farmers to self-monitor waterway condition and ecological…
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Project Summary: A Risk Assessment Approach for Prioritising Actions in Farm Environment Plans
This article summarises the results of a Rural Professionals Fund project that aimed to produce a prototype geospatial tool to identify and prioritise management practices…
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Project Summary: Perception of Drone Use in Environmental Management
This article summarises the results of a Rural Professionals Fund project that aimed to identify barriers to the use of drones in environmental compliance, monitoring…
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Project Summary: Measuring Real-Time Nitrogen Losses in Vegetable Production
This article summarises the results of a Rural Professionals Fund project that aimed to find an accurate way to measure the amount of nitrate leaching…
Technical Report
Catchment And Community Environment Groups In Aotearoa New Zealand: Goals, Activities And Needs
The Ministry for the Environment contracted the Cawthron Institute to survey catchment and community environment groups about how they are organised, what they are doing,…
Journal Article
Reflecting on the journey of environmental farm planning in NZ
Environmental farm planning in New Zealand dates to the 1950s when soil conversation plans were first undertaken. Since then the extent and complexity of whole…
Presentation
Mitigation action prioritisation & resource tool for freshwater farm plans
Freshwater farm plans will soon be compulsory for all pastoral farms larger than 20 hectares as part of the Government’s Action for Healthy Waterways reforms.…
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NZ’s Catchment and Biodiversity Groups: Goals, Activities & Needs – webinar
In this webinar, Jim Sinner and Marc Tadaki of Cawthron present the findings of a survey of catchment and biodiversity groups. The survey was conducted…
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Landscape DNA Webinar for Rural Professionals
This webinar for NZIPIM demonstrates the LandscapeDNA website, an interactive tool to help farmers and their advisors view their land from different perspectives and understand…
Interactive Tool
Actions to Include in a Farm Environment Plan
This interactive infographic is a compilation of actions to decrease the loss of contaminants from agricultural land. Mitigation actions can be filtered by any of…