The vision and strategy
Agriculture, forestry, mining, and tourism provide more than 25% of New Zealand’s GDP. New Zealand’s prosperity is therefore highly dependent on this ‘land economy’.
At present, information on the land resource, and the capability to commission, generate, interpret, and use it, is distributed across many organisations. The National Land Resource Centre (NLRC) is a collaborative science centre that operates beyond current institutional boundaries, communicate science without exclusivity of language or form, and provide the evidence and capability from which to enhance and unlock the ’land economy’.
The centre has three mains aims:
• Transforming the way science is brought together, delivered and used. The NLRC creates conversations on national priorities for science, evidence-based policy, and business decisions to meet the needs of all stakeholders. The NLRC also provides strategic leadership to consider issues affecting the use of our land resource in the future as well as the science and information that will be needed to respond to these challenges.
• Building capability and partnership across the sectors. The NLRC helps develop the capability of those researching, governing, and managing the land resource. It also focuses on capturing knowledge from those experts approaching retirement and developing ways in which to share this knowledge effectively with others.
• Creating a gateway to New Zealand’s land resources and services. Initially through provision of an online gateway to available research and resources, data, workshops, forums, and experts. Subsequently through establishing consolidated, science data products (best available from a range of sources) and customised information (easily consumable, fit-for-purpose) for policy, business, and science users. The NLRC will remove the barriers from information residing in multiple organisations or not being accessible as well as those barriers that prevent science being easily understood and used.