Monitoring greenhouse gas emissions on Māori farms

Monitoring greenhouse gas emissions on Māori farms

This is a report of a project that measured greenhouse gas emissions from Māori pastoral farms. It sets out a typology for Māori farming, profiles 29 dairy and sheep and beef farm entities, and compares greenhouse gas emissions, emission intensity, and nutrient leaching across those farms.

The report also describes four focus farms used for deeper modelling work. It covers governance structures, farm system characteristics, and mitigation scenarios modelled with farm planning tools to examine how changes might affect emissions and nutrient losses.

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