S2, EP. 10: Dairy Cows, Climate Change and Settler Colonialism: Insights from Aotearoa/New Zealand
Channel: Ecopolitics Podcast
Date: 2021-04-07

In this episode we talk about dairy farming and climate change in Aotearoa/New Zealand, focusing on how settler-colonial dynamics shape this complex story. New Zealand's dairy sector contributes 1/4 of that country's greenhouse gas emissions. Dr John Reid, Senior Research Fellow at the Ngāi Tahu Research Centre at University of Canterbury, and Dr. Hugh Campbell, Professor of Sociology at University of Otago l tell us how this came to be, bringing their personal histories and research insights, as Māori and Pākehā (non-Māori New Zealanders) respectively. The episode shows how Indigenous sustainability values are having a growing influence on the agricultural sector today.