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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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Video
Bringing people together for diverse land use – webinar
In some catchments, diversification to mixed land uses will be a more pragmatic solution than applying all mitigations on all farms – especially where a…
Video
The Spatial Awareness Project
Aotearoa New Zealand from 100 meters in 100 Seconds. From Cape Reinga to Gore, this film explores the variety of NZ landscapes. It asks an…
Journal Article
Projected wine grape cultivar shifts due to climate change in New Zealand
Climate change has already been affecting the regional suitability of grapevines. This has significant implications for New Zealand. We modeled key crop phenological stages to…
Journal Article
Land use and water quality (Editorial)
The issue of land use and land-use intensity has long been linked to water quality globally. Changing land use in New Zealand, especially in pastoral…
Guidance
How to Talk About the Future of Farming in Aotearoa New Zealand
This guide is to help people talk effectively about the future of farming, and land-use change in particular, to the general public and farming communities…
Journal Article
Developing an indicator of productive potential to assess land use suitability in NZ
The Land Use Suitability (LUS) concept is composed of three indicators describing the inherent productive and economic potential of land parcels (productive potential), the contribution…
Summary
If the climate is changing, will land use need to change?
The earth’s surface has gradually been warming up since the beginning of the 20th century – by as much as 1C in some places. One…
Technical Report
Creating a diverse and sustainable dairy farming and forestry landscape
Analysis of the results and discussion indicates that our hypothesis did not eventuate. There was not the increase in pasture production in the ‘shade’ environment…
Technical Report
Integrating horticultural and arable land use options into hill country farming systems: Site-specific crop options and value chain-based business case
The ‘Integrating Horticultural and Arable Land Use Options into Hill Country Farm Systems’ research project developed a process for crop identification and assessment to help…
Technical Report
Barriers to diversification
This report covers a project funded by Our Land and Water, to investigate the challenges faced by landowners when they seek to diversify via land…
Technical Report
Integrating horticultural and arable land use options into hill country farming systems: The multi-criteria decision-making process
The ‘Integrating Horticultural and Arable Land Use Options into Hill Country Farm Systems’ research project aims to develop a process and tools for crop identification…
Journal Article
Attribution of River Water-Quality Trends to Agricultural Land Use and Climate Variability in New Zealand
Trends at 1051 river monitoring sites across New Zealand incrementing annually for time windows of 10 and 20 years over the 28-year period ending 2017…