Climate change impacts on land use suitability (1)

Climate change impacts on land use suitability (1)

Land Use Opportunities | Whitiwhiti Ora

This report explores how climate change could affect the suitability of farming, forestry and horticulture across Aotearoa, and the flow-on effects for waterways and other receiving environments.

It draws on modelling at three different scales: detailed crop modelling for three case-study regions, Hawke's Bay, Southland and Waikato; broader modelling at a regional scale; and simple climate indices applied nationally.

The Deep South and Our Land and Water National Science Challenges published the report in 2019, drawing together several different models and a range of assumptions that are set out in full in the report itself.

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