Land Use and Farming Intensity

A report for the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment.

This paper documents the production of land-use maps and measures of farming intensity for 1996, 2008 and 2020. These maps and measures of farming intensity are produced to be compatible with the Catchment Land Use for Environmental Sustainability model (CLUES) developed by NIWA.

This paper is set out as follows: In the remainder of this section we give an overview of our work. The production of land-use maps is discussed in section 2, and the production of measures of farming intensity is discussed in section 3. Section 4 concludes.