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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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Technical Report
Zero Internationally Produced Supplement in the New Zealand Dairy System: Final report
The aim of this project was to determine how the effects of removing all Internationally Produced Supplement (IPS), affects our New Zealand dairy farming systems…
Guidance
Analysing Trade-Offs in Land-Use Decision-Making
A free training course by Xiaoting Hou-Jones (IIED, UK) and Alan Renwick (Lincoln University, New Zealand). This virtual training aims to help researchers learn how…
Technical Report
Supporting Land Use Adaptation for a Climate Changed Future
The convergence of water use consent renewals and dairy shed renewals may be a catalyst for land use change in mid-Canterbury around the early 2040s.…
Journal Article
Growing for good: Producing a healthy, low greenhouse gas and water quality footprint diet in Aotearoa
Food production plays a central role in the health of humanity and our environment. New Zealand produces a large amount of food, but it is…
Presentation
Developing a framework to assess the impacts of land use change using wellbeing indicators
An in-progress update on the development of a framework to measure the true (integrated) effects of land use change, focussed on the selection of wellbeing…
Summary
Next generation key to future of whenua
Case studies of two Māori Land Trusts aim to identify a pathway that will engage a new generation of kaitiaki to protect historically and culturally…
Journal Article
Land-use suitability is not an intrinsic property of a land parcel
Land-use choices should not be determined by potential productivity alone but should also account for environmental constraints and for land use elsewhere in the landscape.…
Journal Article
Development of a Systems Model for Assessing Pathways to Resilient, Sustainable, and Profitable Agriculture in New Zealand
There is a clear research gap in understanding how future pathways and disruptions to the New Zealand (NZ) agricultural system will have an impact on…
Summary
Future scenarios for arable agriculture
Food security, tackling climate change through emissions reduction, and developing alternative proteins in New Zealand are three threads that were explored by the Future Scenarios…
Journal Article
Phenotyping early-vigour in oat cover crops to assess plant-trait effects across environments
Early-vigour is a plant trait phenotypically characterised by a rapid expansion of leaf area in early stages of crop growth, before canopy closure. Although early-vigour…
Video
The Tīmata Method: A low-cost way to retire farmland into native forest
Restoring erodible land in New Zealand into native forests can be a challenging and costly process, limiting private landowners’ participation in large-scale projects. However, there…
Technical Report
Retiring Farmland into Ngahere
The purpose of this report, fact sheet and information video is to introduce successful low-cost native planting methods which can be used as an educational…