One of the greatest challenges facing regional and national agencies, and the food and fibre sector, is the integrated management of land and water to provide sustainable production, while simultaneously protecting downstream ecosystems and supporting diverse community and iwi values. Soils hold more water than our rivers, lakes, and aquifers. They are the pathways for pollutants from land use, and the source of sediment entering waterways from erosion. Soils are being lost by erosion from productive lands at unsustainable rates.
Our work provides understanding of soils, capability to manage the effects of land use, and confidence to deploy mitigation approaches.
Land & soil resources
Soils, landscapes and natural resources such as water underpin natural and managed ecosystems. They provide ecosystem and productive services on which we rely for agriculture and forestry and act as a platform for communities, infrastructure, and the national identity on which our culture and tourist trade is based.
