Enhancing soils, water & land

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our productive and natural landscapes, and their health is central to society’s well-being.</div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="l-content-container" id="overview"> <div class="l-elemental-content"> <div class="l-content-block l-content-block--default "> <div class="element keypointsblock" id="e2462"> <div class="c-key-points"> <a id="our-work-enables-new-zealand-to"></a> <h3 class="c-key-points__heading">Our work enables New Zealand to:</h3> <ul class="c-key-points__list"> <li class="c-key-points__item">use land more sustainably</li> <li class="c-key-points__item">he whenua koiora (better use resources for intergenerational well-being)</li> <li class="c-key-points__item">better protect and restore land and soil resources</li> <li class="c-key-points__item">reduce the impact of land use on freshwater resources. </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="l-content-block l-content-block--full l-content-block--snug-bottom"> <div class="element 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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.</p><p class="l-content-page-summary">Our work provides understanding of soils, capability to manage the effects of land use, and confidence to deploy mitigation approaches.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="l-content-block l-content-block--default l-content-block--snug-bottom"> <div class="element dnadesign__elemental__models__elementcontent" id="e2464"> <div class="content-element__content"> <a id="content"></a> <h2>In this section</h2> </div> </div> </div> <div class="l-content-block l-content-block--default "> <div class="element dnadesign__elemental__models__elementcontent" id="e2421"> <div class="content-element__content"> <a id="in-this-section"></a> <p><img src="/assets/Discover-Our-Research/Land/Sedimenterosion__ResizedImageWzMwMCwyMDBd.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200" class="left ss-htmleditorfield-file image" loading="lazy"></p><h3>Erosion & sediment</h3><p>We undertake a diversity of research and consultancy projects including fundamental understanding of erosion processes, landscape dynamics and response in a changing environment, erosion and sediment modelling, and tools for control and mitigation of soil and land degradation.</p><p><a class="button" href="/discover-our-research/land/erosion-and-sediment/"><span>Discover more</span></a></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="l-content-block l-content-block--default "> <div class="element dnadesign__elemental__models__elementcontent" id="e2422"> <div class="content-element__content"> <a id="land-and-soil-resources"></a> <p><img src="/assets/Discover-Our-Research/Land/190327_-6089__ResizedImageWzMwMCwyMDBd.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200" class="left ss-htmleditorfield-file image" loading="lazy"></p><h3>Land & soil resources</h3><p><span>Soils, landscapes and natural resources such as water underpin natural and managed ecosystems. 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