food security Archive

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    Tatua Dairy also hit by melamine - by frog



    The melamine scandal has wiggled its way out of China and into New Zealand with news that product from Tatua Cooperative Dairy Company has also been contaminated.  Although I had to ask has an issue shot right past mainstream into the realm of the bizarre when Whale Oil says: The more important story however, which [...] read more
    September 30, 2008 12:00 pm - 5 Comments

  • fresh news from the Cape - by Nandor Tanczos



    Well, I’m still in Cape Town. Don’t know if NZ media is reporting much about it, but Zimbabwe is still the big news here. A shipment of arms from China, ordered three days after the election, docked in Durban for overland transportation to Zimbabwe late last week. The Government said they had no legal grounds [...] read more
    April 22, 2008 4:47 am - 6 Comments
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    Monbiot on meat - by frog



    George Monbiot has just taken a look at the global food crisis: Never mind the economic crisis. Focus for a moment on a more urgent threat: the great food recession which is sweeping the world faster than the credit crunch. You have probably seen the figures by now: the price of rice has risen by [...] read more
    April 16, 2008 10:01 am - 88 Comments
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    We need a food security strategy - by frog



    While the rest of the world has faced food riots, plunging world food stocks and out of control prices for basic commodities New Zealand has mostly floated along with our major worry being the rapidly rising price of cheese. So it was good to see the Herald covering Sue Kedgley’s call for a food security [...] read more
    April 9, 2008 4:43 pm - 21 Comments