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April 15, 2025

Biodiversity part of a sustainable growing future

A well-known New Zealand food producer sponsoring an A Lighter Touch biocontrol project wants to support growers adopting sustainable crop…

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Project Reports

April 15, 2025

Native plants enhance winter predator populations

Native perennial plantings alongside vegetable crops at the Pukekohe Research and Demonstration Farm are hosting significant diversity of beneficial insects,…

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April 15, 2025

Growers focus of biodiversity collaboration

Two programmes focused on growing knowledge of economic and environmental benefits from on-farm biodiversity are pooling their resources to gain…

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March 14, 2025

A Lighter Touch March 2025 newsletter

This month we have an update on our regulatory case study project taking a new-to-New Zealand bioinsecticide for the control…

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March 14, 2025

NZ on right path to increase use of biologicals

Increasing grower uptake of biological crop protection products will require industry collaboration, regulatory change, and more education about their use…

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Project Reports

March 14, 2025

ALT work to feed into regulatory recommendations

The recommendations from the Ministry for Regulation’s regulatory registration review highlight areas where A Lighter Touch’s work aimed at improving…

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Biodiversity part of a sustainable growing future

Native plants enhance winter predator populations

Growers focus of biodiversity collaboration

A Lighter Touch March 2025 newsletter

NZ on right path to increase use of biologicals

ALT work to feed into regulatory recommendations

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