Tag Archives: Strategy Vs Technocrats

Integrated Agro-ecological Systems Land Use vs the ‘dis-integrated’ industrial machine

Posted on December 3, 2021 by cjkperley

There is a difference in kind between complex, integrated, low input, free range systems of land, soil, organic matter, fungi & macroinvertebrates, plants & animals, and …. ….. industrial high energy input feedlot systems which abuse each of those – … Continue reading →

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Are GMOs New Zealand’s Agricultural Future?

Posted on February 22, 2016 by cjkperley

The debate about the future of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in Hawke’s Bay (and NZ agriculture) is heating up.  A number of opinion pieces are reacting to this government’s attempts to take legislative decision making out of the region’s hands. … Continue reading →

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Regional Development – Thinking Short & Narrow or Long and Broad

Posted on August 17, 2015 by cjkperley

Wairarapa MP Alistair Scott’s opinion piece regarding the environmental record of New Zealand’s National led government (Hawke’s Bay Today 26th July 2015) is so full of errors, misrepresentations and clichés that it is difficult to know where to start. At its … Continue reading →

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