Increasing food prices, coupled with record high petrol prices and last year’s GST increase, were stretching family budgets beyond their limits according to Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei. She was responding to a news report about a mother living on a diet of two-minute noodles so that she can buy bread to feed her children. According Read more
The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) begins its 9th South West Pacific Ministers of Agriculture Meeting on 5 April in the Kingdom of Tonga, with food security and volatile food prices as key issues of discussion Participants will discuss the cause and impacts of high global price transfers, and appropriate policy actions to Read more
Many churches are asset rich and cash poor. They are finding that the level of need in the community is stretching their resources. Hamilton diocese general manager Greg Schmidt says the Catholic Church is now run largely as a business despite its charitable purpose. He is a chartered accountant with a master’s degree in business administration. “We’re Read more