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August 30, 2024
Our Land and Water has now ended.
Our mission was to preserve the most fundamental treasures of Aotearoa – its land and water – while producing value from those same treasures.
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Technical Report
Challenges and Opportunities for New Zealand Agriculture under Climate Change (2022 update)
Future climate is likely to have a major impact on the primary sector, and has the potential to drive major shifts in land use as…
Technical Report
The Matrix of Drivers: 2019 Update
This 2019 report identifies key trends and challenges with potential to impact land use in New Zealand, prioritised by primary sector leaders, with open access…
Video
Drought: What Does the Future Look Like for Farmers and Growers?
This webinar covered recent drought projections for New Zealand to the end of this century, describing a wetter west and drier east (particularly in winter),…
Guidance
Make your stream monitoring data count! A national quality assurance framework for community-based monitoring in Aotearoa New Zealand
This national quality assurance framework will support community and CBM groups to collect freshwater data of a known quality that are ‘fit for purpose’. The…
Journal Article
Meat insights: Uruguayan consumers' mental associations and motives underlying consumption changes
A telephone survey (n = 601) was conducted in Uruguay to explore participants' mental associations with meat and the underlying reasons changes in the quantity…
Journal Article
The mitigation of phosphorus losses from a water repellent soil used for grazed dairy farming
Soil water repellency (SWR) decreases the infiltration rate of soil, increasing the potential for surface runoff in response to rainfall (Bauters et al., 2000). The…
Technical Report
Collective storytelling to improve freshwater ecosystem health through catchment community knowledge sharing
Water, the lifeblood of Aotearoa New Zealand, sustains our identity and wellbeing; nonetheless, freshwater environments (lakes, rivers, wetlands and aquifers) are significantly impacted by humans.…
Interactive Tool
Taking a look at the big picture
What are the relationships between soil quality and land value, land pressure on catchments, and water quality? Typically, soil quality monitoring has been used to…
Video
Dispersed forage feeding to minimise negative impacts on soil and water quality
Scott Hassall harvests kale at scale on his farm in North Canterbury. Harvesting kale, (mowing, chopping, and feeding out) is not common practice in New…
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