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November 02, 2023
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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.
Pohewa Pae Tawhiti
Supporting land-use change decisions that are consistent with landowner long-range visions and priorities, through an integrated framework that incorporates tools, models and innovative guidelines and…
Healthy Estuaries
Assessing the interactions between loadings of different contaminants from freshwaters on the health and functioning of estuaries
Rewarding Sustainable Practices
Delivering validated new knowledge to agribusiness leaders transforming commodity supply chains to premium value chains
Indicators Working Group
Investigating the use of indicators to help the primary and public sector meet local, national and international reporting requirements
Reasons for Water Quality Improvement
Investigating the reasons for decreasing phosphorus concentrations in many waterways
Register of Land Management Actions
What's been done? A national record of land management actions to improve water quality and restore catchments
New Models of Collective Responsibility
Developing new ways to strengthen the connection between people, land and water
The Matrix of Drivers
A foundational understanding of international and domestic drivers and issues, and their importance to the primary sector
This project has produced
Rural Professionals Fund 2020–21
There were 15 successful projects in the first funding round for the Our Land and Water Rural Professionals Fund.
Revitalise Te Taiao
Place-based research to develop evidence-based examples of how agribusinesses and communities can make enduring changes in land use, management, value chains, and market focus to…
Rural Professionals Fund 2021–22
There were 12 successful projects in the second funding round for the Our Land and Water Rural Professionals Fund.
Next Generation Systems
Identifying next generation primary production systems and opportunities to change the face of farming
This project has produced
