Directors of six national science challenges call for a national food strategy

by Editor | Jul 12, 2023 | News

The directors of six National Science Challenges call on the government to develop a National Food Strategy for Aotearoa New Zealand. “Food is essential to our health and wellbeing but it can be a major cause of ill-health and disease,” said Professor Sir Jim Mann,...

New ‘Data Supermarket’ serves up fresh options for regional food production

by Editor | May 24, 2023 | News

Te Puke is world-famous in New Zealand as our kiwifruit capital – but new research shows that top spot could  be contested in future, with suitable kiwifruit production land identified in Waikato, Taranaki and the top of  the South Island – even stretching down to...

How farmers, forests and greenies found a friend in bearded bureaucrat, Dr Rod Carr

by Vincent Heeringa | Apr 26, 2023 | Opinion

This week’s draft advice from the Climate Change Commission has achieved a rare win: it’s given farmers, foresters and environmentalists all reason to cheer.  The document, out for consultation, is the second formal advisory from the Commission and is designed to help...

More fertiliser and feed does not necessarily raise dairy farm profits but increases climate harm

by David Wrigley | Apr 13, 2023 | Opinion

Wanglin Ma, Lincoln University, New Zealand; Alan Renwick, Lincoln University, New Zealand, and Kathryn Blackman Bicknell, Lincoln University, New Zealand New Zealand is in an unusual position in the developed world when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions. About...

Here’s what hospo could look like in 2050 if the world is a hellscape of climate shithousery – report

by Vincent Heeringa | Mar 31, 2023 | Opinion

Imagining the future used to be the job of miserable sci-fi writers. Think killer robots, toxic fungi, alien probes. But stand aside, Asimov. Thanks to new government rules, all New Zealand industries must now engage in some crystal-ball gazing to imagine how they...