Decision-Making: The Central Committee on Agriculture is funded by the central government. The agencies
involved are MORST, MAF, MOF, DOC, FRST, Regional Councils, and other key stakeholders including
commercial land users, NGOs, and the science community. Several joint initiatives between MAF and other key
departments address the action required for managing land resources. The initiatives include the New Zealand
Sustainable Land Management Strategy, and the development of a National Science Strategy (NSS) for Sustainable
Land Management (SLM). Within MAF's Sustainable Agriculture Facilitation Programme, current work, and the
strategy through to the year 2000, are focused on the following key themes: achieving consistent implementation of
local government policies and plans developed under the Resource ManagementAct and the Biosecurity Act,
including attention to participation processes; facilitating the brokerage of information and decision support tools
and technologies for sustainable agriculture; encouraging the inclusion of sustainable agriculture principles in
mainstream education; providing well targeted and appropriate operational research - particularly on understanding
the factors contributing to sustainable agriculture systems; development of management planning and decision
support systems; and collaborative, participatory community research to support the uptake of sustainable
technology and management practices.
Programmes and Projects: No information available.
Status: The Government's Environment 2010 Strategy identifies several areas posing environmental and long-term
productive capacity risks for land use. These include: land degradation as a result of soil erosion, soil compaction
and other factors; rundown in soil health; and effects of water quality and availability. Actions required for
managing land resources include: encouraging land management practices that reduce soil loss, and maintain or
enhance the quality of waterways, groundwater, and coastal waters and protect them from suspended sediments,
nutrients, harmful microorganisms and other contaminants; avoiding, mitigating, and remedying the impacts of
land-related hazards, including flooding, subsidence, and erosion; and developing land management skills and land
use systems that will enable people and communities to provide for their social and economic well-being.
Capacity-Building, Education, Training and Awareness-Raising: No information available.
Information: No information available.
Research and Technologies: The National Science Strategy for Sustainable Land Management (NSS), established
by the Government in 1996, is an integral part of the overall Sustainable Land Management Strategy announced by
the Government and coordinated by the Ministry for the Environment. The NSS is developed and implemented by a
central and three regional committees. A task of the committees will be to improve the still-poor understanding on
the part of many New Zealanders of their land resources and how human activities affect them, and the long-term
monitoring and assessment of environmental trends, through coordinated science. The committees will also have
the key roles of monitoring, coordinating, and advocating science which enhances sustainable land management.
They will seek to strengthen the links among science, policy, and land management, enhancing the transfer of the
findings of land management research to land users and policy makers.
involved are MORST, MAF, MOF, DOC, FRST, Regional Councils, and other key stakeholders including
commercial land users, NGOs, and the science community. Several joint initiatives between MAF and other key
departments address the action required for managing land resources. The initiatives include the New Zealand
Sustainable Land Management Strategy, and the development of a National Science Strategy (NSS) for Sustainable
Land Management (SLM). Within MAF's Sustainable Agriculture Facilitation Programme, current work, and the
strategy through to the year 2000, are focused on the following key themes: achieving consistent implementation of
local government policies and plans developed under the Resource ManagementAct and the Biosecurity Act,
including attention to participation processes; facilitating the brokerage of information and decision support tools
and technologies for sustainable agriculture; encouraging the inclusion of sustainable agriculture principles in
mainstream education; providing well targeted and appropriate operational research - particularly on understanding
the factors contributing to sustainable agriculture systems; development of management planning and decision
support systems; and collaborative, participatory community research to support the uptake of sustainable
technology and management practices.
Programmes and Projects: No information available.
Status: The Government's Environment 2010 Strategy identifies several areas posing environmental and long-term
productive capacity risks for land use. These include: land degradation as a result of soil erosion, soil compaction
and other factors; rundown in soil health; and effects of water quality and availability. Actions required for
managing land resources include: encouraging land management practices that reduce soil loss, and maintain or
enhance the quality of waterways, groundwater, and coastal waters and protect them from suspended sediments,
nutrients, harmful microorganisms and other contaminants; avoiding, mitigating, and remedying the impacts of
land-related hazards, including flooding, subsidence, and erosion; and developing land management skills and land
use systems that will enable people and communities to provide for their social and economic well-being.
Capacity-Building, Education, Training and Awareness-Raising: No information available.
Information: No information available.
Research and Technologies: The National Science Strategy for Sustainable Land Management (NSS), established
by the Government in 1996, is an integral part of the overall Sustainable Land Management Strategy announced by
the Government and coordinated by the Ministry for the Environment. The NSS is developed and implemented by a
central and three regional committees. A task of the committees will be to improve the still-poor understanding on
the part of many New Zealanders of their land resources and how human activities affect them, and the long-term
monitoring and assessment of environmental trends, through coordinated science. The committees will also have
the key roles of monitoring, coordinating, and advocating science which enhances sustainable land management.
They will seek to strengthen the links among science, policy, and land management, enhancing the transfer of the
findings of land management research to land users and policy makers.
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