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...
Jul 4, 2018 | Business & Economics, 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 two of this symposium on the future of food, Maria...
Apr 12, 2018 | Business & Economics, Politics & Society
By Ken Jackson Honorary academic Ken Jackson explores whether food security is currently in a state of flux. As someone who has been involved in research on poverty, shelter, food, health, and well-being in society for a number of decades, I am well aware that...
Apr 3, 2018 | Politics & Society
Throughout history, food has played many roles in changing the world. It has been a weapon of war, an offering for peace, a force of development, imperialism, and an organizer of societies. In many cases, food and its production have had some of the most profound...