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Land-Use Change
Land use in Aotearoa will change as new opportunities and challenges emerge under a changing climate. Water quality expectations will also drive change in some catchments, where investing in mitigations could be less pragmatic than some change in land use.
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Future Proteins: Risk or opportunity for Māori agribusiness?
Agriculture is woven into Aotearoa New Zealand’s national identity. A future that embraces alternative methods of accessing proteins has the potential for significant disruption at…
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Beyond meat and milk
Three scenarios show us how the rise of new proteins could radically change the future of farming in Aotearoa. This interactive summary for non-technical readers describes…
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Farming with the sun: Agrivoltaics from a farming perspective
Listen to an international panel of farmers, who have integrated agrivoltaics into their farming businesses, share their experiences and key learnings. The webinar concludes with…
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Integrated Impact Assessment Framework (updated March 2024)
The purpose of this integrated impact assessment (IIA) framework is to allow exploration of scenarios where land use is changing for a specified region of…
Technical Report
From mountains to the sea: values and science for an informed kaitiaki/guardian – land
This project aimed to assess the impacts and implications of meeting contaminant reduction targets for estuaries on catchment land-use and management. The objectives were to:…
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How, Where and Why Alternative Proteins Will Change Farming in New Zealand
Three scenarios show us how the rise of alternatives to animal proteins could change farming in Aotearoa by 2050. The Protein Future Scenarios research project,…
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NZIPIM Webinar: Opportunity for Integrating Agroforestry into Canterbury Dairy Farms
The webinar covered relevant information on agroforestry internationally and from New Zealand. It focused on agroforestry systems designed for two case study farmers – including…
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Environmental Law and Agrivoltaics
Professor Catherine Iorns, of Victoria University of Wellington School of Law, discusses the RMA process for agrivoltaics, when the public get involved in the consenting…
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An Introduction to Agrivoltaics
An overview of agrivoltaics, combining food production with solar energy production. Featuring Jasper Kueppers, a renewable energy engineer at Infratec, farm consultant Anna Vaughan, Professor…
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Agrivoltaics and Te Ao Māori
Mavis Mullins (Rangitāne, Atihaunua a Pāpārangi), chair of Nga Whenua Rahui, discussons how lessons from the past can inform decisions about the use of agrivoltaics…
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Worker Requirements Webinar
Labour shortages in the agrifood sector were highlighted when Covid-19 closed borders, but the underlying shortages go back further. For example, the conversion of sheep,…
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Ki uta ki tai: Managing catchments for Healthy Estuaries
This research provided a new, national overview of the current state of the estuaries. About 60% of NZ estuary catchments do not meet the NPS-FM…