As the war in the Ukraine drags on, the international food crisis is deepening. The Economist put it simply but grimly:
“The war is tipping a fragile world towards mass hunger. Fixing that is everyone’s business”.
So shouldn’t the New Zealand Government be exhorting farmers to go all out to produce as much as they can for this country to be lifting its food exports? Is this the time for the government to be erecting new hurdles to impede the production of food? Shouldn’t it delay the plan to tax methane emissions for at least 12 months?
Let’s look at what The Economist further said:
