Facts at their Fingertips:
Knowledge and Skills for Sustainable Land Management in South Island
Hill and High Country
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Desired outcomes from best management practices for sustainable land management
- Farm decision-making
- The barriers to farmer uptake of new information on sustainable land management
- Best management practices for sustainable land management
- Measuring change
- 7 Conclusions
- 1. Monitoring: how to keep the motivation high where benefits are long term and costs ongoing
- 2. Need to enable ready access to existing information
- 3. Need to be able to audit / link / analyse / benchmark data to understand farm systems
- 4. Ongoing education and learning is important
- 5. Facts about sustainable land management issues not detailed enough at farm level
- 6. How to get useful science support and involvement for high country issues
- 7. Need scientific "peg in ground" to record current status, for benchmarking
- Recommendations
- 1. Developing processes to enable land managers to more readily access and use information to make decisions that achieve sustainable land management goals.
- 2 Government input into the provision of new information / tools that are complementary to existing farmer information.
- 3 Regular scientific assessment of the resource base
- References
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