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What on earth are we going to eat?
Ep. 21
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021 | It's been a busy week in NZ Ag largely due to field days at Mystery Creek last week - a highlight in the annual calendar for many. This saw KPMG lunch their Agribusiness Agenda for 2024, The Govt confirm on their election promise of keeping ag out of the ETS, and the announcement of the Fieldays innovation awards
- Young Innovator - Mark-It (St Peter's Cambridge)
- Prototype - Fleecegrow
- Earlystage - Kiwifibre
- Growth and Scale - WoolAid
Then we ask the question - with so many components reducing the land available for farming - what will we actually eat?
here is a list of resources from our chat and we would love to engage further with you on our Instagram page
The number of farms in the world is declining, here’s why it matters
Likely decline in the number of farms globally by the middle of the century
- Growing NZ cities eat up fertile land -but housing and food production can coexist | New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects Tuia Pito Ora
- https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/02/the-amount-of-farmland-converted-into-forestry-revealed.html
HOSTS | @emilywalker @myfanwyalexander
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