by Peter Wright | Jan 18, 2022 | News
A new study from the University of Auckland, Infant Feeding in New Zealand, has focused on analysing what children eat in their first 1000 days to try and understand how Aotearoa ranks second in the world for child obesity, behind the United States. The World Health...
by Peter Wright | Jan 18, 2022 | News, Uncategorized
New Zealanders have an increasingly favourable attitude towards the primary industries, according to a recent Primary Purpose online survey. The main reason for this, as expressed by 32 per cent of respondents, was the belief that farmers are critical to the economic...
by Peter Wright | Jan 18, 2022 | News
South Canterbury has seen an increase in overall retail spending for the start of 2022, up 9 per cent on same time last year, but the hospitality industry might not be sharing in the windfall just yet due to sector-wide staff shortages. Data released by transaction...
by Peter Wright | Jan 14, 2022 | News
Although up to 49% of New Zealand’s greenhouse emissions come from farming, food wastage is also a major contributor, thought to be up to 10%. When uneaten food decomposes without oxygen it produces methane, a greenhouse gas. In an episode of Footprint:...
by Peter Wright | Jan 14, 2022 | News
New Zealand has come in second in the latest Global Drug Survey regarding how regularly they drink. The survey showed Kiwis drink, on average, 120 days of the year. This is compared to France drinkers indulging 132 days a year at the top of the scale and the United...
