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...
Oct 30, 2018 | Business & Economics, Referee
By Madeline Shelling Madeline Shelling outlines how feedlots have changed the face of the New Zealand agri-food system. Scoffing at an American tourist ordering grassfed beef can be the day’s highlight for a smug Kiwi. “Well of course it is!” we cry with haughty...
Jun 25, 2018 | Politics & Society
Climate change, pesticide contamination, soil-depletion, loss of land, power politics, mass pollinator die-offs, and a host of big business practices threaten the long-term availability of healthy food. In part one of this symposium on the future of food, Maria...