Lincoln University is building a solar farm that will also grow horticulture crops beneath the rows of panels.

The Lincoln University Energy Farm will be first in New Zealand to demonstrate high-value agrivoltaics, the process of creating renewable electricity generation and farming on the same land.

Currently under review for resource consent, the farm will have 2800 panels on a four-hectare site near the campus.

Whether it is Delhi or Drury, urban growth slamming up against highly productive food producing land is a challenge authorities around the world have to grapple with, and those in New Zealand are no exception.

Lincoln landscape architecture senior lecturer Dr Shannon Davis has led an Our Land and Water project that looks at the challenges of the “peri-urban” zone where town meets country, and ways to make better use of it.

A new research project to future proof and protect Aotearoa food systems and the environment has attracted more than $10 million in funding this week.

The collaboration between the Sustainable Nutrition Initiative® (SNi®) of the Riddet Institute, hosted at Massey University, and iwi group Wakatū Incorporation was selected by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment as a recipient for their 2024 Endeavour Fund round on Friday (September 15).