Tag: New Zealand

  • This Week’s New Economy News

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    There are a lot of interesting and exciting things happening on the new economy front this week.  This from New Zealand: Jan. 24 (BusinessDesk) – New Zealand’s top 30 cooperatives contribute more than $42.3 billion per annum to the economy in revenue, a new report has found. The report, by industry body Cooperative Business New…

  • Cooperatives Responsible for 3% of GDP in New Zealand

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    Scoop Business Independent News reports on the contributions cooperatives make to New Zealand’s economy: Showing a combined annual revenue of $41,129,034,964 for the year 2011-12, the Top 40 cooperatives in New Zealand ranged from Fonterra Cooperative Group and Foodstuffs at the top through Southern Cross Healthcare Society and Mitre10 to Ashburton Trading Society, the Dairy Goat…

  • New study finds nothing impressive about GM crop yields

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    By Laura Rance in the Winnipeg Free Press: The debate over genetically modified crops has often generated more heat than light. Some opponents claim the stuff is hazardous to our health, which seems unlikely, given that just about anything with vegetable oil or corn in it (and that’s just about everything these days) comes from…