Aug 3, 2023 | Featured, Science & Technology
Words by staff writers and John Dooley, Royal Agricultural University in Gloucester Photo by Ivy Farm on Unsplash Lab-grown meat could have a huge impact on farmers so researchers are asking them what they think about it. “Toxicity” and...
Nov 29, 2022 | Business & Economics, Ngā Ara Whetū, Politics & Society
“Traffic Jam. New Zealand style.” by Bernard Spragg is marked with CC0 1.0 Last month, New Zealand was recognised internationally for being the first country planning to charge farmers for agricultural emissions. Meanwhile New Zealand’s farmers...
Nov 24, 2022 | Business & Economics, Ngā Ara Whetū, Science & Technology
Photo by Delphine Ducaruge on Unsplash Ian Mason, University of Canterbury New Zealand agriculture contributed 50% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2020, an unusually high proportion by world standards. Dairy farming was responsible for about half...
Nov 17, 2022 | Business & Economics, Ngā Ara Whetū, Science & Technology
Photo by Gulfside Mike on Unsplash One of the biggest challenges facing Aotearoa New Zealand’s environmental response are its farms. Addressing agriculture is central to reducing New Zealand’s unique emissions profile and combatting the impacts of climate change. New...
Nov 16, 2021 | Business & Economics, Referee
By Catherine Alexander New Zealand’s reliance on pastoral farming as the backbone of its agricultural economy has a hidden cost in the form of phosphate extraction, a non-renewable resource mined at a high cost to our Pacific neighbours and the Sahrawi people in...
Mar 25, 2020 | Business & Economics, Referee, Science & Technology
New Zealand has a dirty rivers problem. In 2017, two-thirds of the country’s rivers were deemed too polluted to swim in. Given this, research is being carried out to find ways in which the country can attempt to clean up its rivers. Ngārie Scartozzi is a student...
Mar 23, 2020 | Business & Economics
A new bill surrounding organic farming in New Zealand, as well as imports and exports, is currently going through parliament. The bill outlines plans to get stricter on what is defined as organic and what is not. But what are the differences between conventional and...
Mar 16, 2020 | Business & Economics, Science & Technology
A couple of weeks ago, the Green Party put forward a new bill surrounding organic farming in New Zealand as well as imports and exports. The bill outlines plans to get stricter on what is defined as Organic. However, there is no overarching consensus on what is...
Aug 29, 2019 | Science & Technology
What are the biophysical limits to New Zealand’s food and energy future? Mike Joy says people need to do a lot less of what they are doing now if New Zealand is to have a sustainable future. Joy says we need to change the way we live if we are to avert a significant...
Apr 25, 2019 | Science & Technology
A rise in the global consumption of meat will have major consequences for both the environment and for our own health, according to a new paper published in Science. 95bFM’s Jack Marshall spoke to Massey University Professor Ralph Sims about the report and what eating...