New Zealand aid programmes – helping the Pacific prosper - Economy

New Zealand aid programmes – helping the Pacific prosper

Australia kept our apples out for years, so why don’t we play the same game?

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1st September, 2012

New Zealand ran out of farmland in the mid-1950s. Of course, it has always been limited, but the opportunities to create new farms ran out and the existing ones were getting bigger, so the job opportunities on them did not increase. Countries short of farmland used to acquire more by conquest (or settlement; 19th-century Britain colonised lands like New Zealand to defeat – perhaps only temporarily – Malthus’s dire predictions of population overwhelming food resources). Seventy years ago, the war aims of Germany and Japan included conquering others’ lands to feed their populations. They ...

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