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The Green Party believes that fair, safe and environmentally sustainable trade is important for our standard of living and quality of life. Unfortunately, most trade in goods in the world today is not fair. Transnational corporations make huge profits; poor countries and poor people go deeper into debt and poverty. Nor is it sustainable - natural resources are plundered unsustainably, and unnecessary trade leads to rising carbon emissions and can spread pests and diseases around the globe.

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Farming Green: Not an Oxymoron

25 Nov 2008

I want to start by setting out the substantial areas of common ground I believe we have.

First, that food production is hugely important and valuable – both because it provides the largest part of NZ’s livelihood in the world economy, and because we live in a hungry world. There is no doubt that pressures to feed an expanding world population will increase.

Human rights left out of Nat’s foreign policy

30 Oct 2008

National’s foreign policy, announced yesterday, fails to properly address the needs of the most oppressed people in the world, the Green Party says.

“Human rights don’t get a mention anywhere in the policy, despite grave violations in many countries,” Green Party Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Keith Locke says.

Agriculture and Rural Affairs Policy – Towards Sustainability

24 Oct 2008

We believe that a strong, healthy and diverse agricultural sector is essential to an economically viable and environmentally sustainable New Zealand.
The dual challenge of rising oil prices (Peak Oil) and Climate Change pose special issues for the agricultural sector and for the future of New Zealand’s food security.

Drug flood fears founded, vigilance urged: Greens

23 Oct 2008

News today of a 100kg Chinese drug seizure in Auckland underscores the fears voiced by Green Party MP Metiria Turei earlier this month.

Mrs Turei is worried that her concern about New Zealand’s burgeoning methamphetamine problem worsening as more precursor ingredients enter the country because of our preferential trade deal with China is becoming a reality.

Economics Policy - Thinking Beyond Tomorrow

19 Oct 2008

Thinking Beyond Tomorrow shows how New Zealand could enter the twenty-first century on track for a sustainable future. It is the Green Party's vision of a country where human needs are met without damage to the other species that share the earth

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