by David Wrigley | Mar 7, 2024 | Opinion
David Seymour, who increasingly appears to be the tail joyfully wagging the dog of our new coalition government, has called for the school meals program to be scrapped. Christopher Luxon, dutifully padding along behind his coalition partner, has said that it must...
by Editor | Mar 6, 2024 | Opinion
The return on investing in universal school meals is clear. According to our new report, universal free school meals (breakfast and lunch for students regardless of income) have 2.5 to seven times the return in human health and economic benefits in comparable...
by Editor | Oct 20, 2022 | Opinion
Bill Kaye-Blake, principal economist with NZIER, reflects on 20 years of research into creating greater value in New Zealand’s primary sector. I’ve been doing research on agri-food systems for 20 years in New Zealand and in California before that. The same...
