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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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Interactive Tool
Map of Total Sediment Yield and Reduction Potential
An interactive map shows the total sediment yield and the potential for mitigation strategies to reduce sediment losses from land to water by 2035. The…
Guidance
Management Practices to Improve Water Quality (learning module)
This kōwae (learning module) will help you support farmers in creating cost-effective freshwater environment plans using science from Our Land and Water. You will learn:…
Video
Our Land and Water Podcast Series
Our Land and Water introduces insights from eight years of science in this podcast series. In each episode you will hear from the scientists and…
Video
Our Land and Water Podcast Episode 1: How bad is our water quality, really?
For the past eight years, Our Land and Water has funded research with the goal of improving the health of our rivers and lakes here…
Video
Our Land and Water Podcast Episode 6: We can make progress – but we need to work together
Local community involvement is one of the keys to the long-term health of our rivers and lakes, and communities like catchment groups can play a…
Interactive Tool
MitAgator
Built on a detailed farm map, MitAgator’s software gives a spatial view of where contaminant losses are occurring and identifies critical source areas (CSAs). Targeting…
Whenua Life Values
An online tool to assist Māori agribusiness in making strategic decisions within a kaupapa Māori framework
Rural Professionals Fund 2020–21
There were 15 successful projects in the first funding round for the Our Land and Water Rural Professionals Fund.
New Models of Collective Responsibility
Developing new ways to strengthen the connection between people, land and water
Register of Land Management Actions
What's been done? A national record of land management actions to improve water quality and restore catchments
This project has produced
Eutrophication Product Footprinting
Eutrophication indicators will help New Zealand agribusiness reduce environmental impacts and meet expected new European environmental standards
Phosphorus Best Practice
Investigating whether current fertiliser and effluent guidelines and policy are strong enough to prevent phosphorus loss