New Zealand food system
Three Months In. Here's What I've Been Finding.
It started with one exceptional strawberry. Three months later: fragile processing capacity, hidden supply chains, and quiet resilience in NZ's food system.
New Zealand food system
You Wouldn’t Buy Your Dinner From Temu
New Zealanders assume the frozen vegetables in the supermarket are still mostly local and trustworthy. But as local processing disappears, that choice is quietly being made for us.
New Zealand food system
New Zealand Is Not Just Losing Factories. It Is Losing the Ability to Feed Itself Properly
Frozen vegetable processing is shrinking in New Zealand because the whole chain is under margin pressure at once. Growers are squeezed, processors are squeezed, households are squeezed, and supermarkets still hold enormous power. Imports do not solve that. They simply mask the damage.
